: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?
:
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:Andre
I did a quick search of the qmail site but couldn't find an email
address to report the FAQ issue to. If QMail calls fsync() in a
reasonable manner, then softupdates is perfectly safe and the QMail
FAQ needs to be updated to recommend softupdates rather then
disrecommend it.
-Matt
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