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

[Greg Black]

Matt Dillon wrote:

>     And, I would say, that for any mailer creating and deleting files in
>     a spool directory at a high rate, *ONLY* a filesystem with softupdates
>     turned on or a journaling filesystem such as XFS or ReiserFS can be
>     considered crash-surviveable.  Synchronous meta-data updates will not
>     save you (EXT2FS or FFS without softupdates).

It seems to me that you're saying that softupdates is now the
recommended way to go -- so why does 4.2-Release still have the
dire warnings in /sys/ufs/ffs/README.softupdates?  Is that file
obsolete, or do the warnings still apply?

Greg


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