From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 6 11:41:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from brutus.conectiva.com.br (brutus.conectiva.com.br [200.250.58.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FA137B67D for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:41:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (riel@localhost) by brutus.conectiva.com.br (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f16JVgT28166; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:31:42 -0200 X-Authentication-Warning: duckman.distro.conectiva: riel owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:31:42 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel X-Sender: riel@duckman.distro.conectiva To: Andre Oppermann Cc: Mike Silbersack , Poul-Henning Kamp , Charles Randall , "'Matt Dillon'" , Dan Phoenix , Alfred Perlstein , Jos Backus , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) In-Reply-To: <3A805035.C71AAD5E@monzoon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote: > Qmail depends on ordered-metadata updates (Terry! :-). That > means if you issue a link() to the new place and a unlink() in > the old place it should guarantee that the link() happens > *BEFORE* the unlink(). > > As it is, I can only recommend people to go with something > > like postfix, Exim or zmailer ... > > Have a look at the qmail source and the facts before you spill > out such a *bullshit*! If qmail depends on a behaviour which isn't guaranteed by some OSes ... Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message