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From: sysruth@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Cnews wish
Message-ID: <1989Sep14.182604.15992@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: sysruth@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Ruth Milner)
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
References: <1401@esquire.UUCP> <1989Sep12.230820.2296@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 89 18:26:04 GMT

In article <1989Sep12.230820.2296@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1401@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>>I would be pleased to read the following
>>(or equivalent) about Cnews:
>>    ...
>>    articles will stay around as long as
>>    possible, being deleted automatically only
>>    as space is needed for new articles...
>
>Well, this may half-please you. :-)  It's not set up that way out of the
>box.  But at least part of it -- expiry only on space shortage -- can be
>done by minor changes to shell files.  People have done it.  

If you're planning to do it, remember that since news articles tend to
be small individual files, you are likely to run out of inodes long before
you run out of space, even if you do some tweaking with the inode
parameters in mkfs. The exceptions, in my experience anyway, tend to
be when you run into problems batching or unbatching so you get huge
files created and left around for a while.

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