Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rna!dan
From: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days?
Message-ID: <106@rna.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 88 01:36:34 GMT
References: <571@oce-rd1.oce.nl> <22560@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <22560@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>Unfortunately, using a symbolic link to add disk space to the
>netnews tree would make newsgroups in that portion of the tree
>impossible to cross-post to from the rest of the tree (on your
>site), because cross-posting is represented in the filesystem with
>hard links, and they don't work across filesystems...

	Unfortunate indeed, as you can't use a separate file system partition
either. I had wanted to use a different partition for comp, but even though
most cross-posting is within single major group (a root group?), apparently the
news software builds a temporary file and then hard links to all the target
newsgroups. So all newsgroups must reside on the same mounted partition.