Re: [exim] Quota over 2GB supported?

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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A: Michael Haardt
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] Quota over 2GB supported?
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Michael Haardt wrote:

> Here is a patch that works for me [tm]. It allows quota of 2 GB and more
> on machines with large file support, but does not support maildirsize
> and large messages. It is probably not complete in other ways, too.
>
> I don't particularly like the loop to convert values, but Philip will
> probably make his own patch anyway. This patch may suffice until then.


I have put a new snapshot in

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-snapshot.tar.gz

This contains my version of Michael's patch, plus the necessary changes
to handle large directories of maildir files, maildirsize, etc. I found
a better way of converting off_t values for printing, namely

printf("%.30g", (double)off_t_value);

This, I hope, will work in all environments.

What I have not done is the work to allow individual messages to be
larger than 2G. No doubt in a few years' time such monstrosities will be
upon us - but it's not a totally trivial change, and I'm wondering if it
would actually slow things down noticeably to do 64-bit arithmetic
instead of 32-bit arithmetic? Perhaps this should stay on the wish list
for a while.

The snapshot, of course, contains a number of other changes. My test
suite runs clean, but it would be nice if a few other people could run
some tests on this, as I poked in quite a few places.

Philip

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