On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:25:36PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2001 09:09:36 -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
>
> >2) fast-update requires the poptemp (pop drop) files to be located on
> >the same partition as the corresponding mail spool files.
>
> This conflicts with another motivation for using a different partition
> for the temp drop: quotas. When a user gets above half his quota, he
> can't POP anymore because the copy uses up more than his quota, so
> administrative intervention is required. Putting the temp drop on a
> filesystem with no quota allows a user near quota to reduce the size of
> his mailbox.
It's a good point, but it conflicts at a very fundamental level with
the whole nature of the fast-update optimization.
-- Clifton
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