From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 11 08:17:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA15818 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:17:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA15803 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:17:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA09766; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:17:11 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id KAA28205; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:17:09 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199703111617.KAA28205@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: freebsd as a news server? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 10:17:07 CST Cc: scrappy@hub.org, marc@bowtie.nl, neal@pernet.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703102215.PAA23669@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 10, 97 03:15:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847