Correction: /var/spool/news on ext3fs, OK.

[Cedric Ware]

> And every day for a week INN has crashed, complaining that it couldn't
> create files in the spool.  Indeed, one could find directories with zero
> size there (even . and .. would be missing) and a manual e2fsck recovers
> articles in lost+found.
[8<]
> running Debian-frozen and kernel 2.2.17pre14 + ext3-0.0.2f + NFSv3
> (Dave Higgen's merge 3.0).

Actually, it happens that I had forgotten the last ext3-0.0.2eto0.0.2f
patch on this kernel, so it was using ext3-0.0.2e, which IIRC has a
related bug.

Anyway, the problem no longer appears (in the last 24h, and three hard
resets) on 2.2.17pre15 + (really) ext3-0.0.2f + NFSv3.  Sorry for the
false alarm, and thanks a lot, I won't have to go back to e2fsck, I guess !

						Cedric Ware.