Marc Horowitz writes:
> >> 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.
If people are truncating their mail files (rather than deleting them),
then the directory itself doesn't change all that often. There are
callbacks on the individual file -- but presumably only you and the
delivery agent write to it, and no one else is trying to read it (:-)}
DFS will behave differently in some respects, not least because of the
new token management scheme for obtaining read or write permission on
a file or directory. More details would have to come from someone more
familiar with Episode or token manager internals.
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