INN and local cancel messages
Russ Allbery
eagle at eyrie.org
Wed Feb 3 20:34:39 UTC 2016
Chris Knipe <savage at savage.za.org> writes:
> If I cancel a message locally on INN (innctld cancel <messageid>),
> How is the message (and more importantly, space) in a CYCBUFF re-used? Is
> it reused at all, or not?
It's not. The cycbuff doesn't go back and use space until it rolls over
and the whole cycbuff starts being reused.
> From what I can gather, the actual message file is removed in a timehash
> store, and I suspect the same would hold true for timecaf and tradspool
> (i.e. the storage space is return to the OS),
Correct.
> but from the documentation I am unable to determine whether the space
> will be re-used for a different (new) article when I use a CYCBUFF
> (i.e. storage space return to CYCBUFF).
Nope. It's exactly the same from a storage perspective as if you hadn't
cancelled the article. The only thing that ctlinnd cancel does is remove
the article from overview and hide it from clients.
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