[OpenAFS] Qmail over AFS

[Russ Allbery]

Cees de Groot <cg@cdegroot.com> writes:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> said:

>> Note, btw, that delivery to a maildir requires cross-directory hard
>> links, which are not supported in AFS.

> Wouldn't rename() work just as well? I never really looked at it, but on
> reading the description, I don't see why it is necessary to link() from
> tmp/ to new/.

rename() removes the destination file if it already exists.  link()
doesn't.  That's why maildirs use link().

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>