overview in buffindexed.

[Russ Allbery]

Paul Reilly <pareilly at tcd.ie> writes:

> How do you manage/expire the overview data when using buffers for
> overview data?  Is this done as part of the news.daily?

Yes, expireover should handle it as normal.

> I have a finite amount of disk space, and would like my overview buffers
> to act more like CNFS, so I have a constant disk usage.

Unfortunately, there isn't any overview method that does this exactly.
buffindexed isn't cyclic; if it runs out of space, it will still throttle
the server until more space is added or articles are forcibly expired.

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