fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) (10/23/90)
Well, its finally happened. My 150meg news partition is full and I'm
expiring news after only about a week of news...which isn't long
enough.
Unfortunately, it may be a long time before a new disk to create a
larger news partition. In the interim I would like to divy my news
out among other filesystems and sym,bolic link them into the normal
spool directory.
Unfortunately, Bnews 2.11.19 (nearly the latest version yes?) assumes
that the news is stored in the same filesystem and makes hard links
for cross posted articles and such. Looking at the source to inews.c
indicates that simply using symlinks instead of links is not
sufficient.
Before I put much time into this, has anyone already done these
modifications? Is there an option in the localize.sh that I'm
missing?
I'm running on a Sun 4/490 with SunOS 4.1 getting news via nntp
1.5.10. Any diffs or pointers would be humbly appreciated.
Regards,
FWP
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Phone: (601)325-2942 FAX: (601)325-8921mark@zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily) (10/26/90)
In article <FWP1.90Oct22223219@tzu.CC.MsState.Edu> fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes: ... >Unfortunately, it may be a long time before a new disk to create a >larger news partition. In the interim I would like to divy my news >out among other filesystems and sym,bolic link them into the normal >spool directory. > >Unfortunately, Bnews 2.11.19 (nearly the latest version yes?) assumes >that the news is stored in the same filesystem and makes hard links >for cross posted articles and such. Looking at the source to inews.c >indicates that simply using symlinks instead of links is not >sufficient. > >Before I put much time into this, has anyone already done these >modifications? Is there an option in the localize.sh that I'm >missing? > ... >Regards, >FWP > >-- >-- >Frank Peters Internet: fwp1@CC.MsState.Edu Bitnet: FWP1@MsState > Phone: (601)325-2942 FAX: (601)325-8921 It's not *exactly* what you want, but it'd a starting point. A few months ago I posted diffs to Bnews 2.11.19 so that it use multiple filesystems. The code only handles two filesystems but could be generalized. Basically the idea is: if you get an error from the hard link, do a copy. It'll make only one copy per filesystem and then generate additional hard links if needed. Email me for the patch, or if I get a flood of postings, I'll repost. -- Mark Mark W. Snitily Consulting Services: 894 Brookgrove Lane Graphics, Operating Systems, Compilers Cupertino, CA 95014 (408) 252-0456 mark@zok.uucp West Coast UUCP X11 archive site If your mailer doesn't like the .uucp domain, these also work: ...!{mips,sgi}!zok!mark, mark%zok@mips.com, mark%zok@sgi.com
jthomp@hosaka.Central.Sun.COM (Jim Thompson) (10/30/90)
In article <495@zok.UUCP> mark@zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily) writes: >It's not *exactly* what you want, but it'd a starting point. A few months >ago I posted diffs to Bnews 2.11.19 so that it use multiple filesystems. >The code only handles two filesystems but could be generalized. Basically >the idea is: if you get an error from the hard link, do a copy. It'll >make only one copy per filesystem and then generate additional hard links >if needed. Hmm, I did something slighly different than this, but it requires symbolic-links. Basicly you *always* copy the first occurance of an article that was cross-posted. You then create symbolic links to *that* article for the rest of its 'appearances'. This handles as many filesystems as you'ld like to put 'underneath' the spool, at the expense of an article becomming completely unreadable if you happen to unlink() or otherwise loose the 'first' copy. All the changes are confined to inews.c. -- Jim Thompson - Network Engineering - Sun Microsystems - jthomp@central.sun.com Charter Member - Fatalistic International Society for Hedonistic Youth (FISHY) "DEC measures benchmarks with a calendar." -- Bumper sticker on a VW van.