Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 19:51:23 +0100 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>, 'Matt Dillon' <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Message-ID: <3A8047AB.D5B0FBB9@monzoon.net> References: <35545.981478627@critter>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <5FE9B713CCCDD311A03400508B8B3013054E3F5D@bdr-xcln.is.matchlogic.com>, Charles Randall writes: > >The qmail FAQ specifically recommends against soft updates for the mail > >queue. > > > >http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/reliability.html#filesystems > > > >Is this incorrect? > > > > It seems to indicate that qmail doesn't use fsync(2) as much as it should > do. If that is true, then yes, softupdates would mean that a lot of things > which qmail (mistakenly) think has been written are in fact not on the > disk. Qmail uses fsync() *very* extensivly! I know pretty well, I wrote the qmail-ldap patch. (avail on http://www.nrg4u.com). PS: Poul, have you got my email from yesterday night? -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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