Julian Elischer wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Dan's non-atomicity assumption on renames is incorrect.
[ ... ]
> > I think that a workaround would be to comment the directory fsync()
> > code out of qmail, which apparently thinks it's running on extfs
> > or an async mounted FFS.
> 
> If you don't want to lose mail then qmail needs to do a fsync after it
> does the rename.

See other mail.  I was referring only to fsync() of directory
data.  Sorry if that wasn't clear because of the intervening
paragraph.

-- Terry

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