Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:57:07 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com> Cc: "'Matt Dillon'" <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Message-ID: <35545.981478627@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:51:59 MST." <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B3013054E3F5D@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com>
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In message <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B3013054E3F5D@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com>, Charles Randall writes: >The qmail FAQ specifically recommends against soft updates for the mail >queue. > >http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html#filesystems > >Is this incorrect? > It seems to indicate that qmail doesn't use fsync(2) as much as it should do. If that is true, then yes, softupdates would mean that a lot of things which qmail (mistakenly) think has been written are in fact not on the disk. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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