Re: Odd News Server symptom?

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Folks,
> :
> :Perhaps it is just my client (Mozilla on OS X), but on most postings 
> :over a day or two old, I am seeing the header only, and the below 
> :message (originally in html) as body:
> :
> :==============================================================
> :
> :Error!
> :newsgroup server responded:No such article number in this group
> :
> :Perhaps the article has expired
> :
> :<200606041916.k54JG5pp033112@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (5994)
> :
> :Click here to remove all expired articles
> :
> :===============================================================
> :
> :Wazzup?
> :
> :Bill Hacker
>
>     /news crashed on crater.  A few days were lost relative to
>     my last backup.
Well if we had ZFS this was almost zero problem ;-)
By the way how is progress going for the fundamental layers in that 
area? Because most of the technical explanation are way over my 
competence I don't get the fine details of it, anyone care to give some 
insights on what the progress is/which are the hairy parts, in a 
language that me, a simple administrator with no kernel coding 
knowledge, could comprehend with careful reading?

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mph