[plug] More on the archives

[James Devenish]

In message <20040308030906.GN1332 at amidala.blackham.com.au>
on Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:09:06AM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> So at some point today I'm going to go through the painstaking
> process of cleaning up the archive and rebuilding them from scratch,
> meaning they'll vanish for a couple of days while they get
> regenerated.

Perhaps there's no need for them to disappear -- how about doing the
regeneration with a different path in the filesystem? This might also
be preferable if the archiver is going to hold a lock for a long time.