Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:38:58 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: drew-dated-1038498271.901d05@poured.net, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing calendars? Message-ID: <3DE07402.B4CBCADE@mindspring.com> References: <GEEGJMKEOCMNOBOAHIOMMENACBAA.pcable@slaudiovis.org> <a05200f1bba044cddeec9@[192.168.0.3]> <l6vzns0uvol.fsf@williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu> <3DE00781.F47E59A1@mindspring.com> <a05200f26ba05f12af913@[192.168.0.3]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > At 2:56 PM -0800 2002/11/23, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Why are soft updates bad for mail queues, in your opinions? > > In general, softupdates are very good for mail queues. Indeed, > this is the case for which softupdates is almost ideal. > > However, both qmail and exim make some assumptions about the > underlying filesystems which are not valid when those filesystems are > using softupdates. Therefore, if you are going to use either exim or > qmail on *BSD, you need to turn off softupdates on the respective > mail queue partitions. It would be nice if they were written to assume nothing more than POSIX compliance of the underlying implementation. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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