Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:05:31 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: Yevgeniy Aleynikov <eugenea@infospace.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG, Ken Pizzini <kenp@infospace.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, security-officer@FreeBSD.ORG, nectar@FreeBSD.ORG, jedgar@FreeBSD.ORG, rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@FreeBSD.ORG, security-team@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@FreeBSD.ORG, guido@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bleh. Re: ufs_rename panic Message-ID: <3E56BECB.16605EC7@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0302211534490.51164-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Dan's non-atomicity assumption on renames is incorrect. [ ... ] > > I think that a workaround would be to comment the directory fsync() > > code out of qmail, which apparently thinks it's running on extfs > > or an async mounted FFS. > > If you don't want to lose mail then qmail needs to do a fsync after it > does the rename. See other mail. I was referring only to fsync() of directory data. Sorry if that wasn't clear because of the intervening paragraph. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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