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From: richv@hpinddu.cup.hp.com (Rich Van Gaasbeck)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Disk space checking in CNEWS
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Date: 21 Jun 91 16:11:36 GMT
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I'm finding more and more evidence that CNEWS expects everthing below
/usr/spool/news to be on the same file system.  My first clue is that
the space determining program (I forget the name, spacefor?) as written
only looks at the space on the filesystem passed as a argument (and
none below it).  A fellow news user says there is a second problem,
CNEWS hardlinks crossposted articles, which won't work across file
systems.

Am I right?  Are the choices 1) use ONE very large disk, or 2) expire
articles fast enough to fit whatever ONE disk (really filesystem) you
have and not 3) use several disks (filesystems) to hold
/usr/spool/news.

Richv
richv@hpinddu.cup.hp.com