[Dovecot] in memory indexes?

[Daniel]

2007. March 11. 17:45, Timo Sirainen:
> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 17:23 +0100, Daniel wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > RCS file: /home/cvs/dovecot/src/lib-index/mail-index.c,v
> > > Working file: src/lib-index/mail-index.c
> > > revision 1.268
> > > date: 2007-03-11 16:10:42 +0000;  author: tss;  state: Exp; 
> > > lines: > +8 -5;  commitid: yo3GJUvm1yKgLG9s;
> > > If we run out of disk space, move to in-memory indexes.
> >
> > I just saw the commit. Is this a "solution" for the Quota/FS
> > problem, the problem which occurs when the quota is full, and
> > dovecot can not update it's index files?
>
> Yes. It seems to work quite nicely with my maildir stress tests, but
> with mbox I'm still getting errors. I'll try to get those fixed.
>
> With maildir there's still the problem of dovecot-uidlist file. I
> haven't yet even tried to make it do something sensible when it can't
> be written. I'm not sure if I'll bother. (In my tests I kept the
> control files in a different partition.)

I understand that the in memory index files are only half of the 
solution towards a working Quota/FS system. Is the separate partition 
the only currently functioning solution?

Daniel