On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:17:16PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
1. Leafnode relies on hard-link counts, so current implementation of hlinks
on FAT32 breaks it. News spool has to be on NTFS, and it seems this will be
an NT/2K/XP only package.
Is that necessary? Can't that be ifdef'd for Cygwin?
I've discussed this before with leafnode maintainer, Matthias Andree, and
here's what he says:
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The whole /var/spool/news/* organization relies on hard links.
The expire process relies on the hard link count (st_nlink in struct
stat, as in the <sys/stat.h> header file and returned by the stat()
syscall) being correct, file copies on FAT32 will lead to premature expiry
and a horrible waste of disk space, it may become unbearable for
cross-posted articles.
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