Re: Multi filesystems Cnews ?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 1990 15:32

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In article <1990Aug24.022209.20087@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>Well someone just posted a patch for Bnews to enable it to spread
>its articles over a couple of filesystems...
>Has anyone done this for Cnews? ...

C News actually has (somewhat limited) support for this already, if your
system supports symbolic links.  Geoff has occasionally looked at the
idea of copying, to handle systems without symlinks, but I don't believe
he's actually done it yet.  It should not be hard if you are not vastly
concerned about minimizing the number of copies.  Minimization gets
tricky, but you can do dumb copying by just implementing symlink()
as a copy instead.
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Multi filesystems Cnews ?
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