Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Warren Baker wrote:
>
>> Besides the downside of using it in conjunction with queue_run_in_order,
>> surely the majority of installations out there make use of
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> split_spool_directory - so should it not be enabled by default since it
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> Have you any evidence for this? My (also totally unsubstantiated) guess
> would be that "the majority of installations" are single-user or
> small-company users of Debian boxes. I think we just don't know.
>
>> is beneficial?
>
> It may not always be beneficial, though the difference may be small and
> one is splitting hairs to argue about it. (e.g. a company with 100
> emails a day and such like).
>
> Changing the default in the code would suddently hit a lot of existing
> installations, who might not know what is going on, even though it is a
> self-sorting-out change. It's the kind of change which, if it is to be
> made at all, should only be part of a major upgrade (something like the
> Exim 3->Exim 4 upgrade) IMHO.
>
Well
the postfix people had a big "discussion" about split or not as default,
and Weitse relented and now non-split is the default...which as Philip
just said made for some interesting upgrades to 2.3 of PF.
--
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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