another news.daily question

[Russ Allbery]

Qonita <qoni198 at puspa.cs.ui.ac.id> writes:

> If I use cnfs, the articles are self-expired because of cyclic buffer
> size, is it right?

Right.

> So, if the overview information of the articles are expired by
> news.daily and the actual articles (physical, text) are still kept in
> the cycbuff, what would happen?  Will those expires system clashes with
> each other?

The expire process, for self-expiring storage methods like CNFS, looks to
see if the article is still there and if it isn't, deletes the overview
information.  So there is a period of time when overview information is
still there but the articles aren't, but at most this causes news clients
to think that the articles have already expired or been cancelled.  And if
nnrpdcheckart (I think that's the right setting; it might be slightly
different) is set to true, nnrpd checks to make sure the articles exist
before returning the overview information, at the cost of some speed.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>