Re: Why is it hard to retroactively crosspost reported spam?

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>:

> Steinar Bang <sb <at> dod.no> writes:

>> How large are these NOV files anyway?

> Huuuge.

> larsi <at> ger:~$ ls -lh /misc/mnews/overview/g/l/k/gmane.linux.kernel.*
> -rw-r--r--  1 news news 298M Jul  5 10:12 /misc/mnews/overview/g/l/k/gmane.linux.kernel.DAT

Hm...yes.  And that's for a single group.

>> And how does INN know where a NOV entry start?

> There's a db index hash file that says where every entry starts.

Is this OVDB http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/docs-2.4/ovdb.html ?
Or something home grown?  Or a different db index hash in INN?

It looks from the description like OVDB stores all of the NOV data in
the Berkeley DB?  And if so, it should be possible to replace a single
field...?

But perhaps that's OVDB 2 and you're using OVDB 1? (which just indexes a
concatenated file of NOV entries...?)