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Date:      Tue, 11 Mar 97 10:17:07 CST
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        scrappy@hub.org, marc@bowtie.nl, neal@pernet.net, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd as a news server?
Message-ID:  <199703111617.KAA28205@solaria.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <199703102215.PAA23669@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 10, 97 03:15:14 pm

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> Are you rebuilding the index file each time you crash?  If not, you
> may end up with "stale" index entries for articles which no longer
> exist on your machine, either becuse they were being written at the
> time of the crash, or because the crash caused their directory entries
> to disappear, or because the index was being updated at the time of
> the failure.
> 
> This isn't a big deal, but it is a potential problem that would not
> be obvious following a successful completion of a fsck, which only
> picks *a* consistent state to restore to, not *the* consistent state.

Terry, what ARE you babbling about?

We're discussing INN here, not some hypothetical news system.

INN is particularly good at recovering from a crash, although there are
a few things on my wish list, but worrying about some mythical "index file"
is not among them.

... Joe

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