writing to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue May 8 11:15:06 IST 2007


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Why not just do another tmpfs mount somewhere else as well? It's quite 
reasonable in most circumstances to mount /tmp on tmpfs and then use a 
subdirectory of that.

Mark Nienberg wrote:
> 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
>

Jules

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