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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!dhesi.a2i!dhesi From: dhesi@spams.r.us.com Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. Smail... Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:05:12 GMT Organization: a2i network Lines: 18 Message-ID: <58vis8$pcf@samba.rahul.net> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <58i45b$apn@nntp1.best.com> <58i81f$ajf@crystal.WonderWorks.COM> <58j08h$1mn@nntp1.best.com> <58k95h$s3b@crystal.WonderWorks.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: waltz.rahul.net NNTP-Posting-User: dhesi Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:35197 comp.mail.smail:2713 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32615 In <58k95h$s3b@crystal.WonderWorks.COM> kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes: >But a separate partition is a win if your system crashes. All >these strange files appear in lost+found. It's much easier to >write a program to relink the files into the right directories >when you know that all of them are related to the mail system. >I've automated this task, and it would have been impossible to do >the job completely without mqueue being a separate partition. My assumption has always been that orphaned files recovered by fsck are all opened-and-unlinked temp files, and there is not much that you can do with them after recovery. (Except maybe visually scan them for valuable data, which should not have been stored solely in opened-and-unlinked files anyway.) -- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com> "please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>