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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!col.hp.com!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!mars.dsu.edu!ivory.dsu.edu!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <48aebm$fh@ivory.dsu.edu> References: <46ldvj$l3c@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <imzqekgzmt.fsf@hidden.cs.uidaho.edu> <472u66$dpo@blackbush.xlink.net> <47f3gf$2gu@atlas.uniserve.com> <47m335$eu3@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <47m8kq$gqq@atlas.uniserve.com> <47qcfu$4r8@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <48095n$es4@atlas.uniserve.com> <489pdd$21u@pilhuhn.pilhuhn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ghelmer@ivory.dsu.edu 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