If I am running files on a ramdisk, how will a journaling file system help?
On Thu, June 6, 2024 10:40 am, Remo Mattei wrote: > HI, > Keep in mind that you do have journaling file system as well. > > Remo > >> On Jun 6, 2024, at 10:20â¯AM, William Silverstein <q...@sorehands.com> >> wrote: >> >> I didn't think about the qmail log files, which would be good. >> >> Where is qmail-queue? What is that? Do you mean /var/qmail/queue? I >> don't >> want to risk mail being lost if the system was unexpectedly shutdown. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, June 6, 2024 5:39 am, Jeff Koch wrote: >>> We've used ramdisks to hold the qmail-queue and it did make a big >>> difference in speed. Depending on the size of ram disk you could also >>> consider including /var/log/qmail which also uses a lot of IO.à >>> Although >>> we backed up the ram disk before planned reboots we weren't >>> particularly >>> concerned if those two directories were accidentally wiped. >>> >>> Jeff >>> >>> On 6/6/2024 3:28 AM, William Silverstein wrote: >>>> I wondered if using a RAM disk (maybe 32 GB) in Qmail would speed up >>>> processing, i.e., handling scanning (using qmail-scanner)? >>>> >>>> Is this a crazy idea? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> William G. Silverstein, Esq. >> Litigation Counsel >> Licensed in California. >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com >> <mailto:qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com> >> For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com >> <mailto:qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com> > -- William G. Silverstein, Esq. Litigation Counsel Licensed in California. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-unsubscr...@qmailtoaster.com For additional commands, e-mail: qmailtoaster-list-h...@qmailtoaster.com
