Sir,
   Could I whistle for this?!?, this is really cool
info., thank you :-).

--- Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org> wrote:
> The difference depends on the history of the file
> system. ext3fs,
> like ext2fs (which has it from Berkeley FFS) divides
> a file system
> into zones. Each zone contains a number of inodes
> and data blocks.
>
> When a directory is created, the file system looks
> for a zone with
> lots of unused space. This avoids file
> fragmentation.
>
> When a file is created, its inode and data blocks
> are allocated
> from the same file system zone as the parent
> directory. This reduces
> disk head movement.
>
> So it depends on the history of the file system
> where your Postfix
> queue directories end up on the disk, and therefore,
> what typical
> incoming queue file inode numbers will be like.
>
> Wietse
>
> Joshua E Warchol:
> > Very cool information, I always wondered how it
> did that. There must just
> > be something different on my systems then. I'm not
> sure what, however. They
> > are all using ext3 spool disks (data=journal), and
> are all running the same
> > version of linux. Reminds me of the song "One of
> these things is not like
> > the other...".
> >
> > Thanks for the info
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:54:24AM -0400, Wietse
> Venema wrote:
> > > Joshua E Warchol:
> > > > How long should the message ID be in Postfix
> 1.1.11? I've got 9 servers
> > > > where it is 11 characters, and one server
> where it is 10. They all are
> > > > running the same install of postfix (from a
> modifed smudd RPM). Is this
> > > > normal behavior?
> > >
> > > The queue ID is in part based on the message
> file's inode number (*).
> > >
> > > The length of a queue ID therefore depends on
> the range of inode
> > > numbers in the file system.
> > >
> > > Wietse
> > >
> > > (*) This is how Postfix can create a file in the
> incoming directory
> > > without danger that a file with the same
> name already exists
> > > in the active or deferred directory. If
> multiple queue files
> > > had the same name, then one of them would be
> lost as mail is
> > > moved from incoming to active to deferred
> queue.
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