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From: ghelmer@ivory.dsu.edu (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: INND1.4+MMAP=BROKEN MESS
Date: 14 Nov 1995 09:58:46 -0600
Organization: Dakota State University
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hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) writes:

>tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) writes:

>>  Err.. if you look at the code, mmap() is only for updating the active file.  Not used for 
>>history at all.

>*beeeep* Wrong. If you compile innd with -DMMAP then mmap() is also
>used for the history ...

Hmmm -- maybe that helps explain why I lost my history file in a bad crash
three weeks ago -- fsck -p couldn't even clean up after the crash.  At any
rate, I've rebuild my INN with ACT_STYLE set to READ since the crash. 

-- 
Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu