From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 11:51:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA27116 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 11:51:18 -0700 Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA27108 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 11:51:09 -0700 Received: by haven.uniserve.com id <30745>; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 11:51:58 +0100 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 11:51:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Ollivier Robert cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does mmap() work correctly? In-Reply-To: <199506070845.KAA01174@blaise.ibp.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > I've been having the dreading "erorr writing symlinked article" from > > INN on FreeBSD from 5-25. I zapped all symlinked articles, did a > > makeactive, and makehistory, but it happened again this morning. Does > > mmap() work correctly? (I never saw anything in the commit list that > > I've been running INN with MMAP enabled since 4/15 (the day it was fixed) > and got no problem. I confess that I'm not a Internet connected site > (UUCP and laptop-by-ethernet feeds). Appears that mmap() was the problem. I've compiled with READ, and it is now 150,000 articles later with no problems (died every day before with "can't write symlinked article" and after rebuilding history twice). Do you use more than one filesystem for news? I suspect that if you don't, inn will blishfully overwrite articles if active updating (ie mmap) is broken. Tom