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Subject: Re: Switching INN 2 storage format
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Salut Tanguy,

> Therefore, I am considering switching to a news storage format more
> suitable with a CoW filesystem. I think the best option would be
> timehash, any thoughts on that?

If you are looking for a news storage format writing one article per 
file, either timehash or tradspool could be used.


> As I understand it, switching storage format for /new/ articles can
> simply be done by simply adding the new storage backend in first
> position in storage.conf, can it not?

Exactly.  The first matching class found in the storage.conf file is 
used.  You'll have to restart innd to take the modified file into account.


> I do not plan on migrating existing articles, but simply to wait for
> them to expire since there does not seem to exist any simple migration
> procedure. But if someone knows a way to do so, I could be interested.

There is a program named "respool" in the contrib directory 
<https://github.com/InterNetNews/inn/blob/main/contrib/respool.c> but I 
have never used it so I do not know whether it works fine.  Use at your 
own risk!  :-)

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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