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From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson)
Subject: Re: INN problems!  Corrupting files
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In article <4llis1$20i@complete.org>,
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>For the past several days, INN has been corrupting the active file.  It is
>not destroying any data, simply appending large numbers of nulls to the end
>of it, which is confusing Tin and other newsreaders.
>
It looks like it is rounding the file up to the next page boundary in
size.  It isn't clear to me what it should do.  If you have a modified
page at the end of the file, the rest of the page will be written out
as zeroes.  Maybe the file should NOT be extended.  I'll look at it.  Note
also that there have been some major reliability fixes in the -current VM
area.  A fix will "appear" in -current :-).

John