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

[Matt Dillon]

    Well, after a long conversation with Mr Bernstein and Kirk it turns out
    that all my blathering about a normal FFS mount being easily corruptable
    due to a crash occuring during heavy disk I/O (e.g. from qmail) is so
    much smoke.

    The fsync()/rename() combination that QMail does should be sufficient to
    guarentee (baring a bug in kernel) that a crash will not result in any
    lost mail queue files when using a normal FFS mount (without softupdates).

    However, I still recommend using softupdates.

                                                -Matt




To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message