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From: flee@cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Expire by Date:
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Date: 18 Mar 91 05:46:50 GMT
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>What I would rather do is give expire two objectives: get me back B
>blocks of free space and I free inodes.

Working on it.  You will be able to say something like
	keep 15M free /news/spool
and a continuously-running expire process will try to ensure that
there's always at least 15 megabytes of free space in /news/spool.
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu