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From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: How to prevent links.
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.233134.29860@cfctech.cfc.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 23:31:34 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.043241.16040@tygra.UUCP>
Organization: Chrysler Financial Corp., Southfield, MI
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In article <1991Apr10.043241.16040@tygra.UUCP> jp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer) writes:
>I had to carve up my /usr/spool filesystem into /usr/spool and 
>/usr/spool/news/comp because I was running out of INODES. (This
>is a SCO XENIX 2.3.2 system). 
>
>Problem is that relaynews was returning 'bad' after most batches.
>The problem turned out to be with newsgroups crossposted to comp
>and some other hierarchy. relaynews would try to create a symbolic
>link instead of a duplicate copy of the article and would run into
>problems as XENIX doesn't allow cross-filesystem symbolic links. 

Er, are you saying that XENIX allows same-filesystem symbolic links? That
would be rather odd, implementing one but not the other...

>Is there any way to fix this?? It seems unreasonable to expect that all
>news will always be on the same partition as XENIX allows a maximum
>of only 65500 inodes per filesystem.

"Reasonableness" has little to do with it. Back when news was young, it
all fit on one partition. Over the years many, if not most Un*x boxes running 
news have acquired symlinks, thus permitting multiple-partitions 
transparently.

What's "unreasonable" is that AT&T took so long to stretch inode number fields
from a ushort to a long...

>Does anyone know wether REAL UNIX SVR3 allows cross-filesystem links??
>
>Thanks.

My SVR3 is so REAL it has a death-star on the tape label... 

(But no symlinks either. Sniff. But I'm much better now.)

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