some questions

[Forrest J. Cavalier III]

> Matus fantomas Uhlar <uhlar at fantomas.sk> writes:
> 
> > after a long time i started play with INN again, installed 2.2 and i
> > have a feq questions/recommendations
> 
> > - what advantage does use of actived give comparing to mmapping active file?
> 
> I don't think it provides very much, and I think that was part of the
> justification for removing actived in the current version of INN.  It
> helps a lot on systems without a sufficiently robust mmap, though.
> 

Well, once upon a time, you could NFS mount the spool, and use
actived remotely.  I think this was done at some sites, but
not very common.  (And I'd expect someone to use traditional
spool in that case.)