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

[Andre Oppermann]

Matt Dillon wrote:
> 
>     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.

I do. Is it safe there as well (from your point of view)?

-- 
Andre

>                                                 -Matt
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