-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/08 12:49, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-02-01 19:23 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> The question is, why did I lose the data? Isn't the journal in ext3 >> supposed to prevent this from happening? > > No. The purpose of a journal is to ensure data integrity, not to make > sure the disk is always in sync with the file data cache. If you want > that, you have to mount the filesystem with the `sync' option (which > will result in a big performance loss). > > My hunch is that your mails never made it to the disk and are lost for > good. FWIW, I'd recommend to leave mails on the server, if you are > using POP3, to ensure they aren't lost in case of a power failure.
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