split of /usr/local/news/dbd

[Russ Allbery]

James Ralston <qralston+ml.inn-workers at andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> The organizational split seems to be along data files which track
> newsgroups on the server (small, mildly variable) and data files which
> track articles on the server (large, highly variable).

> Perhaps we should split them as follows:

>     /usr/local/news/db

> becomes

>     /usr/local/news/db/articles
>     /usr/local/news/db/groups

I have no personal objections to this (don't really care that much one way
or another), but I think it would be better to call the directory
containing the history file "history".  That's what it is, after all, and
I don't expect to want to group anything else into the same bucket.

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