Invalid or inaccessible entry for article

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi River,

> Just noticed this in the INN logs:
> 
> Dec  7 18:38:55 isis nnrpd[17593]: Invalid or inaccessible entry for
> article 1682 in /aux0/overview/u/t/b/uk.telecom.broadband.IDX: offset
> 622623 length 306 datalength 622133
> 
> Should I be concerned?

What version are you using?

As long as you do not see too many lines like that one in your logs,
you should not worry.



Improvements have recently been done about that.  I hope it deals with
your very problem.

  http://inn.eyrie.org/trac/changeset/9239

11th July 2011

tradindexed remap of index files when writes out of order

The overview IDX files aren't being re-read after an article is written to
them -- the failing tests (in xref.t, in the test suite) are the places
where a stored overview line is read back to check that it was stored
correctly, except for the first time each group is read (tests 2-5, 11-18)
and when the high water mark is advanced (7-10), which work correctly.

There isn't any mechanism in the source code for the files to be refreshed
except in the case that the high water mark has been advanced. On systems
which don't have MMAP_MISSES_WRITES, perhaps the underlying write shows
up automatically (?)

Thanks to Wim Lewis for the bug report.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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