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From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
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Subject: RE: Disk 100% busy
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On Sun, October 16, 2005 1:53 pm, Will Saxon wrote:

> I completely forgot that I had the partition mounted 'sync'. That might
> explain things a bit, huh.


Do NOT mount the partition async, you are asking for filesystem corruption.

> I am using qmail - the author indicates that softupdates is not
> recommended. However, I am going to give it a shot and see if I start
> losing mail as he suggests may happen.

Do yourself a big favor, and switch from this historic piece of software
to something like Postfix.