Hello Adam,

Wednesday, January 26, 2005, 12:52:27 AM, you wrote:
>  Here is the description of the issue I found:

>  "Qmail was designed for BSD-like filesystems. And it is
> unreliable under Linux because it assumes that link() is a
> synchronous operation. This is not the case with EXT2 and ReiserFS.
> So you have to apply this patch to avoid losing messages due system
> crashes. You can run Qmail and ReiserFS without this patch, and
> never notice the bug, because you have to get a crash at the right
> time to trigger it. But according to Murphy's law, if your queue
> contains a highly important message, it will happen :)"
So under Linux should I use libsyncdir or this patch?

Or both?

Regards,
Maciej


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