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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Sharing calendars?
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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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