[Mimedefang] ramdisks on Linux

[Aaron Paetznick]

Yeah I was just shooting from the hip trying to find some other way to 
remove as much I/O from my physical disks as possible.  I'm building a 
pool of more-or-less "disposable" front-end filter servers.  If I could 
move EVERYTHING of any significant I/O onto a ramdisk, I might be able 
to get by with cheap/slow SATA drives, even for a machine with very high 
load.

Are there any other directories I could consider running on a ramdisk? 
Are there any "write-through" ramdisk options that might be sendmail 
mqueue safe?

Thanks.


--Aaron



Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 March 2004 22:49, Aaron Paetznick wrote:
> 
> 
>>use a ramdisk for both the sendmail mqueue and the MIMEDefang work
> 
> 
> repeat after me: NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER USE A RAMDISK FOR THE 
> SENDMAIL MQUEUE
> 
> 
> The rest of your mail becomes obsolete then.
> 
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