Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: dbz caveat
Message-ID: <1989Oct27.160627.4791@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1139@svx.SV.DG.COM> <1989Sep26.223014.13868@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <9668@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <6512@ficc.uu.net> <9680@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1989Oct14.062717.15420@twwells.com> <675@wet.UUCP> <1989Oct16.043012.2938@twwells.com> <688@wet.UUCP> <1989Oct22.05 <8236@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 89 16:06:27 GMT

In article <8236@microsoft.UUCP> stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) writes:
>>:                  SVR3 only has 16 bits of inodes!
>
>... the patch that allows news to run on systems like VMS that don't
>allow hard links could be extended to use that trick ...
>... Do Cnews or later revisions of Bnews address these potential
>problems in any way?

Well, sort of.  C News will automatically try to make a symbolic link
(which is essentially what the VMS hack is, these days) if a hard link
fails.  And expire has an option to deal with this.  It's still rather
clumsy, however.

I'm afraid the real solution is bigger inode numbers.
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