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From: goutier@ouareau.iro.umontreal.ca (Claude Goutier)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Empty News Articles
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Date: 30 Nov 88 18:56:53 GMT
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In respect to the loss of articles due to lack of disk space (a problem
which frustrated me of some good news also), it should not depend on the
fact that write allocate immediately to the disk or not.
 
The right think to do is to not consider an article received unless the
text has been correctly written to disk and the descriptors properly set.
This way, if anything goes wrong, the articles is still "not received"
and will be pick up (hopefully) on the next delivery. It is also nice,
if any abnormal condition occurs, to undo what so far has been done and
has not been completed.
 
Am I missing something in the way News Articles are copied from one
machine to another, or is there any complications in implementing the
scheme sketched in the above paragraph?
-- 
 Claude Goutier                   Centre de calcul, Universite de Montreal
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