writing to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

[Scott Silva]

Mark Nienberg spake the following on 5/7/2007 3:34 PM:
> I have /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming mounted as tmpfs.
> 
> I have a mail related script (duplicate msg remover) that could benefit
> from writing to tmpfs instead of physical disk.  Is it OK for my script
> to use some space in MailScanner/incoming or does MailScanner only
> expect to see it's own stuff in there?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
You could have another mountpoint to tmpfs if you want. They would be separate
filesystems to the OS, but would still only use the same total amount of ram.

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