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From: tjt@kobold.UUCP (T.J.Teixeira)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa
Subject: Re: speaking of moving news
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Date: Thu, 29-Dec-83 18:31:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 29 18:31:46 1983
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utcsrgv!dave (Dave Sherman) says:

    So don't mount a new file system on /usr/spool. Mount it on /usr/spool/news.

This won't work if you want to archive old news since expire uses the
link system call to put the article in the oldnews subtree, and the
link fails if the oldnews directory isn't on the same file system as
the news directory.

Extra credit: why won't symbolic links (which *do* work across file
systems) solve the problem?
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