I think that this is a good idea (IMHO as u would guess :) . I think that for far too long we have been chopping up our disks for this reason and losing alot of flexibility (and money if not sleep) because of this. I think that Linux needs new ideas in it or it would be just another very good unix but only that. OTOH I don't think I would be able to do it myself :-/
Husain Rafal Pietrak wrote: > Hi all, > > I know that it's a bit out-off-the-line (that is, the "solution" I'll > propose), I don't have anything to add the current "*/mail* discussion, but > please don't flame me, the "solution" is just an idea that may be somebody > from the current discussion audience could take if one likes it. > > The subject: It looks to me, that everybody cares about mail spool disk > usage, so a lot of people put mail spools on a separate partition. In doing > so, some people like to have partitions mounted as close to root as possible > (the /var/mail variant). IMHO the choice is really quite unimportant, we live > with symlinks for quite some time now, and they really serve the purpose of > allowing both distributors and admins not to care too much. There is also an > issue of best backup schedules that are different for *spool/mail and for > *spool/lpd (for example) that make people have spool/mail on a separate > partition from spool/other; but this doesn't support my points in the > following paragraph, so I leave it alone for now. > > The actual problem is disk usage management limitation that we have on Unix > boxes. Independently of whatever conclusion this FHS discussion on */mail > comes to; Probably, it would be quite nice if some kernel guru took a deep > breath and think of a "subdirectory tree" based quotas as an addition to > current "UID based" filesystem quotas and "partition size" limitations, that > today's Unixes provide for disk space management. > > I think, that if such "quotas" existed - thus allowing to provide a quota of, > say 40MB, within /var/spool/mail for GID=mail and nobody else; and, say 10MB, > within /var/spool/lpd to UID=lpd and, say 15MB, within /var/spool/cron to > UID=root -- current /var/spool/mail discussion would be much less fierce or > even void. For a time, everybody would live with couple of compatibility > symlinks around, and since there would be no reason to move any */spool/* > around, even those symlinks would disappear soon... I think. > > -R > > ---------- > Od: Alan Cox[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Wys³any: 26 stycznia 1999 01:16 > Do: Theodore Y. Ts'o > DW: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL > PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL > PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [email protected] > Temat: Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0 > > One simple one - I want my mail on the spool disk. Its in the grows > randomly, mostly crap, doesnt cause hassle if it fills for a while > category
