>> Unlike AFS, a DFS file's owner/group/mode have their full expected
>> meaning (they behave as masks when a file's ACLs is evaluated).
>> Amazingly, this just plain works -- root sets owner/group/mode through
>> the local mount point, and the globally-available /:/service/mail
>> looks, feels, and otherwise behaves for the user just like /var/mail
>> (or /usr/spool/mail) did back in the dark ages (:-)}
If you have a large site (I'm originally from MIT :-), wouldn't writes
to this volume take forever due to the number of callbacks involved?
Or is DFS different in this respect? That's the major concern we have
with storing mail spools in AFS.
Marc
