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To: Stephen Waits <swaits@pr.erau.edu>
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Subject: Re: news server filesystems.. 
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 06:59:26 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> Our news server filesystem needs almost nightly fsck's in order to stay 
> up.  Is there anything I can do to avoid this?  I assume there isn't - 
> news servers are just hard on filesystems...  (???)

BLECH??  This is not right.  Can you please elaborate on `in order to
stay up.'?  What happens if you don't bring them down and fsck them
nightly?  You should be able to go for weeks, if not months, without
having to fsck anything..

					Jordan