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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

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