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From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Stephen Tweedie wrote:

> > We don't need all the paths, and not any specific path, just a path.
> 
> Exactly, because fsync makes absolutely no gaurantees about the
> namespace.  So a lost+found path is quite sufficient.

MTA authors don't share this. lost+found is "invisible" for the
application that created the file.

I have yet to meet a distribution which scans lost+found at boot time
and syslogs found files or sends root a mail.

So, effectively, lost+found will NOT be sufficient. Discarding file
names at will is not a good thing.

-- 
Matthias Andree