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Subject: Re: Inode limitation of news software
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.080709.15483@gold.sub.org>
Date: 11 Mar 91 08:07:09 GMT
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In <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?

I just installed CNEWS on Unix 386 5.4 with 2 partitions for news.
Cnews does create symlinks for crosspostings.

So far (after 2 days - which doesn't mean a lot), I have seen no problems.

regards Christian
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