On 8/9/06, James Berry <james@jberry.us> wrote:
maildir-save.c: [NEED HELP]
In maildir_file_move(), there seems to be no fallback case, and I'munsure of the desired symantics, so I could use some suggestions here: can we just fall back into something like the code in file-copy.c?
James-
This probably has to do with the way that Maildir's work. Check out this links for details:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
The use of hardlinks give you a level of atomicity and efficiency that I'm not sure you're going to achieve using a standard copy, but I suppose if HFS+ doesn't handle hardlinks well then it's not doing much for you. Basically the hardlink solution gives you good atomicity even through a process crash/kill... something that a straight data copy and delete can't easily ensure.
It's really unfortunate that Apple made such an enormously poor decision in the implementation of HFS+. Any chance you could just use a UFS1 or UFS2 formatted drive for your mail storage?
Good luck, Ben