On 2/27/05 11:09 AM, "Matt Sergeant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> One of the biggest problems will be what the AV scanners actually want
> to see - do they want to scan filenames or do they want to scan a
> bytestream, or what? I guess we can get around that using temporary
> files either way though, but for high performance we want to avoid
> doing extra syscalls writing to disk if possible.

Why not let the temp dir be documented as "best suited for a memory-based
filesystem" and let the user figure out what they want to do with the
worst-case scenario or thrashing the disk be the default?

Making a tmp dir carved out of vm is pretty easy to do on most OS's, maybe
we could build a guide for how to do it on each as contributing sysadmins.
I got tired of the lingering files in the ~smtpd/tmp to where that's now a
filesystem mounted out of vm.  Then whether it's like SA or wants to point
to a file, it's nearly all in vm and may have never hit disk.  Just a
thought.

peter

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