[Dovecot] Deleting messages from MailDir

[Bill Cole]

At 12:27 PM +0100 2/14/08, Edgar Fuß wrote:
>Am 13.02.2008 um 14:56 schrieb Bill Cole:
>
>>Not on all filesystems. Note what HFS+ (MacOS) does:
>>
>>~ $ ls -lc foo
>>-rwxr-xr-x   1 wkc  wkc  332 Jan 29 03:32 foo
>>~ $ mkdir foodir
>>~ $ mv foo foodir
>>~ $ ls -lc foodir/foo
>>-rwxr-xr-x   1 wkc  wkc  332 Jan 29 03:32 foodir/foo
>>~ $ date
>>Wed Feb 13 08:39:24 EST 2008
>It's what I'd expect. In fact, it's what UFS does. Renaming a file doesn't change it's inode.

That's not true for the Solaris 9 implementation of UFS:

$ uname -a
SunOS sysadm05 5.9 Generic_118558-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
$ df -k .
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d2       6050021 5050411  939110    85%    /
$ grep dsk/d2 /etc/mnttab
/dev/md/dsk/d2  /       ufs     rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic,suid,dev=1540002 1202637838
$ ls -lc jar_cache30536.tmp
-rw-r--r--   1 colew    adm        64258 Jan 13 22:28 jar_cache30536.tmp
$ mv $_ foo
$ ls -lc foo              
-rw-r--r--   1 colew    adm        64258 Feb 14 09:53 foo


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