Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[Andre Oppermann]

Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> 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.

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


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