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Also known as: storage backend
How a news server lays articles out on disk. INN offers tradspool, timehash and CNFS among others, and an administrator can assign different methods to different hierarchies, keeping text groups in individual files while binaries go into cyclic buffers. The choice sets how expiry works, how much overhead each article carries, and how large a spool the hardware can sustain.
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