oddness after convert to tagged-hash

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

System as per recent message (sol 7, largefiles, etc).

Built yesterday's (jan 6) snapshot, with tagged-hash enabled. Ran makedbz 
to create the history.pag. Runs perfectly after startup. Expire flies and 
is done in 12 minutes, rather than 8 hours. Expireover still takes 5 hours, 
but that's okay with 14 million articles. Nothing appears amiss, reading 
news is fine. But cnfsstat now lists several 'missing' articles (it used to 
do that only very rarely) and will no longer display the 'Oldest:' stat:

(Missing <7q3X3.229$n3.31865 at news1.telusplanet.net>)
   (Missing <Er3X3.2670$Xo.12652 at news-server.bigpond.net.au>)
   (Missing 
<C4F3EB58676F8364.46C287EB625BDAEB.CD5C896931341102 at lp.airnews.net>)
   (Missing <to3X3.128$Yb.27140 at nnrp.gol.com>)
   (Missing <QuEP3.2979$Ua7.72363 at news2.rdc1.on.home.com>)
   (Missing <7Sf050PjG1B at p-fiff.privacy1.cl.sub.de>)
   (Missing <80ifab$4ev at freenet-news.carleton.ca>)
   (Missing <382d8552.13358903 at tsnews.clarion.com>)
   (Missing <MPG.12963e8f47e467e0989dcf at news.mad.ttd.net>)
   (Missing <80ifsd$48ro$1 at newssvr03-int.news.prodigy.com>)
   (Missing <7Sf17iUUG1B at p-fiff.privacy1.cl.sub.de>)
  Buffer A3-7, len: 1872.00 Mbytes, used: 1162.25 Mbytes (62.1%)   5 cycles
   Newest: 2000-01-07  7:56:04,    0 days,  0:00:07 ago
   Oldest: beats me, who knows how long ago

I don't need to rebuild the history file, do I? I thought tagged-hash only 
affected the dbz...? Or is this problem unrelated, and just coincidental?



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