Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!mcnc!decwrl!sgi!zok!mark From: mark@zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Multi-Filesystem News Spool Message-ID: <495@zok.UUCP> Date: 26 Oct 90 07:19:39 GMT References: Distribution: news Organization: The distant planet Zok Lines: 44 In article fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes: ... >Unfortunately, it may be a long time before a new disk to create a >larger news partition. In the interim I would like to divy my news >out among other filesystems and sym,bolic link them into the normal >spool directory. > >Unfortunately, Bnews 2.11.19 (nearly the latest version yes?) assumes >that the news is stored in the same filesystem and makes hard links >for cross posted articles and such. Looking at the source to inews.c >indicates that simply using symlinks instead of links is not >sufficient. > >Before I put much time into this, has anyone already done these >modifications? Is there an option in the localize.sh that I'm >missing? > ... >Regards, >FWP > >-- >-- >Frank Peters Internet: fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu Bitnet: FWP1@MsState > Phone: (601)325-2942 FAX: (601)325-8921 It's not *exactly* what you want, but it'd a starting point. A few months ago I posted diffs to Bnews 2.11.19 so that it use multiple filesystems. The code only handles two filesystems but could be generalized. Basically the idea is: if you get an error from the hard link, do a copy. It'll make only one copy per filesystem and then generate additional hard links if needed. Email me for the patch, or if I get a flood of postings, I'll repost. -- Mark Mark W. Snitily Consulting Services: 894 Brookgrove Lane Graphics, Operating Systems, Compilers Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 252-0456 mark@zok.uucp West Coast UUCP X11 archive site If your mailer doesn't like the .uucp domain, these also work: ...!{mips,sgi}!zok!mark, mark%zok@mips.com, mark%zok@sgi.com