Xref: utzoo news.software.b:1586 news.admin:3307 news.sysadmin:939 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ncar!tank!oddjob!gargoyle!att!icus!lenny From: lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin,news.sysadmin Subject: Why are news articles separate files? Message-ID: <471@icus.UUCP> Date: 24 Aug 88 22:16:06 GMT Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York Lines: 29 Excuse me if this has been discussed before... but with new standards in Netnews software being developed (ie. News 3.0 and Cnews) why are each and every news article keep in separate files within separate directories? Does this have to do with some sort of RFC standard that was posed way back when the news software first hit the net? Wouldn't a database solution be more apropos? For example, store each article after unbatched in a database (possibly within the directory structure)? This will eliminate the problem with i-nodes decreasing to nothingness. Granted there are somethings that would be slowed down. (eg. expires) The databases can be "key'd" by something, maybe the Article#+ or so other key. Maybe this is totally of the wall... but several people asked me "why?" and I couldn't really find a *good* answer to their question. Maybe the problem is you can't please everyone with what DBM software to use... Maybe you need to create your own dbm libraries... Or give it as a compiler option whether to use dbm or not?! E-mail your responses to me and I'll be glad to summarize... -Lenny -- Paper-net: Lenny Tropiano | @-net: lenny@icus.UUCP ICUS Software Systems | !-net: ...sbcs \ PO Box 1 | boulder \ Islip Terrace, NY 11752 | talcott !icus!lenny Vocal-net: (516) 582-5525 [work] | pacbell / (516) 968-8576 [home] | hombre / Telex-net: 154232428 ICUS | Another-net: attmail!icus!lenny