Author: Cyborg Date: To: Jeremy Harris, exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim, Dovecot, mdir and hardlinks - a true story
Am 15.08.19 um 11:07 schrieb Jeremy Harris via Exim-users: > On 14/08/2019 20:09, Cyborg via Exim-users wrote:
>> I really believe, an option to match quota/du behaviour and use stat()
>> on each file to check
>> the inode, is fine. A) it's relatively simple to do, B) does not break
>> existing installations and C) works on NFS as well, i think.
> We already use stat on each file, unless quota_size_regex is set.
>
> If we take Nigel's excellent point that dividing the filesize by the
> link count, both from a stat call, does the job - plus document the
> point that using quota_size_regex gets quotas wrong in environments
> using linking - this would seem to be the minimum possible change.
>
> Does it satisfy enough cases?
> Lets find out :)
