[Mimedefang] ramdisks on Linux

Cormack, Ken kcormack at acs.roadway.com
Tue Mar 16 16:57:49 EST 2004


> It's become obvious that using ramdisks with MIMEDefang is very 
> important.  This might be a strange/silly question, but if I wanted to 
> use a ramdisk for both the sendmail mqueue and the MIMEDefang work 
> directory, would it be better to use two smaller, or one large ramdisk? 

Be careful!  You do NOT want to put the mqueue directory on a RAMdisk.  If
you should experience a power outage, you would lose everything in the
queue.

Be careful of what you consider putting on a RAMdisk.

KEN CORMACK, RHCE
Sr. UNIX Systems Analyst,
    Open Systems Group
Sr. Software Analyst,
    TSG Midrange Systems Group
AFFILIATED COMPUTER SERVICES, INC.



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