Path: utzoo!utstat!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sco!jonl From: jonl (frederick smythe, esquire) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on multiple disks Message-ID: <4255@scorn.sco.COM> Date: 9 Apr 90 23:33:39 GMT References: <10544@netcom.UUCP> Sender: news@sco.COM Reply-To: jonl (frederick smythe, esquire) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 18 +-I seem to recall scott@grlab.UUCP (Scott Blachowicz) writing: | >Has anyone else had this kind of problem? If so, what have you done to allow | >news on multiple disks? | I'd be interested in hearing about this, too. it is a fairly simple re-organization to the bnews code to change all calls to link to ones own function which will attempt a link, and if it fails, will copy the file over and make the perms/access time etc, the same as possible. i have done this successfully on bnews under sco xenix. i imagine that it could be done even more elegantly under systems with symbolic links (assuming that they have the same inode per filesystem limits). -- jon luini, jonl@sco.com sco usenet administration