Validate history file contents.

[Bill Davidsen]

Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:

>On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Russ Allbery wrote:
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>>Christiaan den Besten <chris at prolocation.net> writes:
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>>>Articles -are- flushed from the overview. I can only get headers from
>>>articles up-to 90 days ... offcourse, they are not realy flushed from
>>>the cnfs, because of its rotating nature.
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>>They won't be deleted from history as long as they're in CNFS.
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>If you really want it to be, you can use the -N flag for expire.  But of 
>course, that means your CNFS buffers are needlessly large and are wasting 
>space.
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Not needlessly, they just have room for expansion. So the expire policy 
becomes "90 days or when I run out of room."  It's not all that 
different from the old file per article storage and having disk and 
inodes available.

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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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