From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 6 8:52:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from bdr-xcon.matchlogic.com (mail.matchlogic.com [205.216.147.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4555D37B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.matchlogic.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:52:05 -0700 Message-ID: <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B3013054E3F5D@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com> From: Charles Randall To: 'Matt Dillon' , Dan Phoenix Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Jos Backus , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:51:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The qmail FAQ specifically recommends against soft updates for the mail queue. http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html#filesystems Is this incorrect? This section also warns against async filesystems on Linux for the qmail queue. Charles -----Original Message----- From: Matt Dillon [mailto:dillon@earth.backplane.com] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 6:30 PM To: Dan Phoenix Cc: Alfred Perlstein; Jos Backus; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qmail IO problems (also: do not use async mounts with softupdates. Just enable softupdates with tunefs, then mount the filesystem normally). -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message