On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 04:05:18PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Postfix uses the inode number in the name, because the name needs
> to be unique across the incoming, active, and deferred directories.
>
> Postfix could lengthen the time before reuse, by including more
> time information (four hex digits for ~1 day, six hex digits for
> ~0.5 year, eight hex digits for ~100 years). Seven hex digits should
> be sufficient to silence any complaints. Tighter packing is possible,
> but we're restricted to letters and digits (i.e. base 62 math).
Couldn't one also freely use "_" and "+" for a complete base64 "alphabet"?
Certainly log parsers would have to adapt, but is there another reason?
--
Viktor.
