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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:23:25 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:38:44AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> Attila Nagy wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is this statement still valid?
> >
> >"ext3 is unsafe for maildir, and with softupdates, so is ffs."
> >http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0202/0358.html
> 
> Yes,
> 
> It's also true that any form of write-caching is unsafe, so disable
> the caches on your SCSI and ATA hard drives.  Simply accept the
> terrible performance hit if you want super-reliability.

Forget Unix, go get VMS or (better) a Tandem ;)

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