On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Brian wrote:
> About two months ago we put exim into 'daemontools', running great not a
> problem at all. A few days ago (monday) we decided to try running with the
> exim spool file in a freebsd mfs (memory file system a.k.a. ram-disk). ... > So my question is, is exim mounted on a mfs partition not supported? Are
> there some other options that we would need to set either in exim or
> FreeBSD to make this working?
I think before you ask that question, there is something more fundamental
to be considered.
Do you really want to have exim's spool, which contains the queue of
mail-yet-to-be-delivered, on an in-memory filesystem whose contents will
be deleted at system boot (or crash) time?
Or does this mfs have some magic beyond what you've described?
Jethro.
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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services
University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK