Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Dynamic "smart" expiration?
Message-ID: <1989Dec29.213539.2801@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Dec27.033817.9953@smsc.sony.com> <1989Dec28.063932.13720@robohack.UUCP> <68634@looking.on.ca>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 89 21:35:39 GMT

In article <68634@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Space based expire *is* the way to do it...
>Either way time based expire is a loser.  The purpose of expire is to
>keep down the amount of disk space (and sometimes inodes) used by
>news, isn't it?

"Keep down" does not mean "strictly bound".  Given constraints on things
like resource consumption, and a user preference for predictable behavior,
it's not obvious that time-based expire is bad.  Much depends on details
of the system's environment.
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