Mounting mqueue.in as a tempfs...on FreeBSD

Peter Bonivart peter at UCGBOOK.COM
Tue Mar 23 19:05:16 GMT 2004


Jason Williams wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I noticed that some people have mounted their mqueue.in as a temporary
> filesystem to increase performance on their system. This sounds very
> enticing and something I would like to look into. I do have a couple of
> questions though.

Don't do that! You will loose mail. It's MailScanners incoming directory
you should mount in tmpfs.

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