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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Huuuuuuuuuuuge INN history.pag?
To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 09:18:05 -0700 (MST)
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>     This isn't good, is it?
> 
> 243448 -rw-rw-r--  1 news  news         249158785 Aug 11 22:49 history
>      1 -rw-rw-r--  1 news  news               123 Aug 11 22:49 history.dir
>  20696 -rw-rw-r--  1 news  news   140737509515644 Aug 11 22:49 history.pag
> 
> 
>     I know the file really isn't that large, but I presume the EOF
> marker has been blown way out for some reason.  The news server seems
> to be running still, but this sort of thing worries me.  ;-)
> inn-1.4unoff3 (no mmap), 2.2-960501-SNAP.  Anyone else seen this
> before?

I think it's more likely that it's just a sparse file at maxfilesize.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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