[OpenAFS] Qmail over AFS

[Russ Allbery]

Cees de Groot <cg@cdegroot.com> writes:

> Still, with the guaranteed globally unique naming algorithm for creating
> the file in the first place, I'd be happy to run qmail on AFS with
> link() patched to rename()..

The other thing that I wonder about is whether rename() across directories
in AFS is atomic.  Is there a window during which a file server failure
could cause the file to be lost completely?

I suppose that unless rename() also returns successfully in that case, it
really isn't much of a problem, since the delivery should fail and have to
be retried.

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