mqueue.in and mqueue

[Chris Conn]

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>
> Wouldn't that be very risky? Using tmpfs for
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming is risk free though.
>

I already have tmpfs for incoming.  The risk is minimal and acceptable
on a stable system.  At least such is my opinion.

>> Can someone educate me as to why the two must reside on the same
>> partition or filesystem?  What is the reasoning behind this (I don't
>> want to generalize it as a limitation, but in my case it certainly feels
>> that way)?
>
>
> When MailScanner moves the message from the incoming queue to the
> outgoing it's a much lighter operation if it's the same file system.

It would be even less if it is from RAM to disk instead of same-disk to
same-disk though would it not?

Chris

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