Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Another CNews Question
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.164957.24862@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 16:49:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.170213.26759@mccc.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar8.170213.26759@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
>I record the output of "df -t" every night just before I run expire.  Is
>it reasonable to expect that if I run "df -t" immediately after the
>expire, the difference in the number of inodes will equal the number of
>articles expired?

Yes, provided you allow for (a) any directories created due to archiving,
and (b) any incoming news processed during expiry.  (A running expire
does not lock out incoming processing.)  (No, there is no possibility
of race conditions, although the code and the reasoning behind it are
subtle.)
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