quarantine release might lose mail?

Frank Cusack fcusack at fcusack.com
Thu Dec 17 16:52:17 GMT 2009


On December 17, 2009 1:05:42 PM +0100 Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Notably, when I started using MailScanner/postfix/MailWatch, the
> inode/queue file ID reuse rate was very high on my systems, due to a
> "bad" partitioning scheme (basically, postfix had its own
> partition/filesystem), so ... I got a lot of duplicates in my maillog
> table ... since back then, the added "entropy" wasn't there. But even

I see.  Yes, a modern partitioning scheme helps. :)  Still, it was
fun to see how the different fs's allocate inums.

> Look, all I'm saying is that the risk is limited,

agreed.

-frank


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