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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.questions Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.wwa.com!news.inap.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: INN problems! Corrupting files X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4looou$572@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <4llis1$20i@complete.org> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 20:53:50 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18032 comp.unix.questions:80686 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