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From: nerd@percival.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: How uucp handles incoming files
Message-ID: <530@percival.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 10:34:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 10:34:42 1987
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Reply-To: nerd@percival.UUCP (Michael Galassi)
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In article <5897@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>> This involves only a rename of the file (not a copy) which is
>> generally quite efficient under Unix.
>
>But a busy system will often keep the spool directory and the user
>directories on different file systems.

I don't know how other systems get configued by the systems I have access
to have the directories /usr/spool/uucp/[whatever], /usr/spool/news, and
/usr/spool/mail on the same filesystem.

Uucp material that is just passing through gets linked to a different file
then un-linked (low overhead), but things like mail and news (the biggest
part of uucp trafic) all get proccessed (sp) before they are written back
out to the same file system they came off of.

On a different note, what does all this have to do with minix?  This is
a horse that has been beeten to death on other newsgroups, why don't we
move it back there?
-- 
If my employer knew my opinions he would probably look for another engineer.

	Michael Galassi, Frye Electronics, Tigard, OR
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