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Date:      Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:21:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        "Will Saxon" <WillS@housing.ufl.edu>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
Subject:   RE: Disk 100% busy
Message-ID:  <1211.FgtQRFVGBkU=.1129584070.squirrel@172.16.0.1>
In-Reply-To: <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED807738007@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>
References:  <0E972CEE334BFE4291CD07E056C76ED807738007@bragi.housing.ufl.edu>

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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.





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