Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[Tony Finch]

Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Qmail has a couple of directories for the different states a queued
>message goes through. The whole queue structure is required to be on
>the same partition/disk. After the completing of each step in the queue
>it is moved through the use of link() and then unlink() to the next
>directory.

Why not just use rename(2)? To protect against the new filename
already existing?

Tony.
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