Pascal Gienger wrote: > Rob Banz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We went through a similar discussion last year in OpenAFS land, and >> came the same conclusion -- basically, if your filesystem is >> reasonably reliable (such as ZFS is), and you can trust your >> underlying storage not to lose transactions that are in-cache during a >> 'bad event', the added benefit of fsync() may be less than its >> performance cost. > > Would'nt it be nice to have a configuration option to completely turn off > fsync() in Cyrus? If you want, with a BIG WARNING in the doc stating NOT TO > USE IT unless you know what you doing. :)
Its already in imapd.conf(8): skiplist_unsafe -- Kenneth Murchison Systems Programmer Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer Carnegie Mellon University ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
