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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:38:00 +0100
From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net>
Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>,
	Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>,
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Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)
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-On [20010206 20:25], Andre Oppermann (oppermann@monzoon.net) wrote:
>> ... provided that qmail calls fsync(2).
>
>$ cd qmail-ldap/
>$ grep fsync * | wc -l
>      21

Of course that says nothing if the fsync()'s are not placed at strategic
places.

fsync();
fsync();
fsync();
.
.
.
fsync();

And _then_ the disk manipulation routines/functions won't do much good
off course.

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