Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Inode limitation of news software
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.181053.29577@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 18:10:53 GMT
References: <1991Mar03.111942.12658@gold.sub.org> <2oi[h2.k7a@smurf.sub.org> <1991Mar10.205041.10534@panix.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Mar10.205041.10534@panix.uucp> alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>I was under the impression that this would break crossreferencing, since
>articles posted to multiple groups are stored as one file with multiple
>hard links. Is C news clever enough to symlink when the groups are on
>different partitions? If not, how can this work?

C News will try to do a symlink if a hard link fails.  You really need to
invoke expire/doexpire with the -l option if you're doing this a lot,
though, since expire has no easy way of coping with the situation unassisted.
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