In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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.
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