> In fact Domino was rejected until they chattr or mounted EXT2 in -sync. > >From my memory when I spoke to Claus and Greg here the ISV being required > to make specific calls to a FS was hard to swallow. However, we did do > this in 8.12
Standards exist for a reason. If there really is a problem with lack of standards here it would be very good if Sendmail Inc raised it with the Open Group for SuSv4. I support the need for a standard to handle the directory name synchronizing. > Humm, if you mean that you can mount EXT3 with options, then yes, but I > rarely find folks that follow the "warning label". If you mean the forced > fsync, yes, that too can be disabled, but I have not read wheter this is > "wise" just saw in places that "you should still run fsync manually at > times". This last area was specific to HA environments. No I mean that it defines orderings and those orderings can handle buggy software that assumes ancient 4BSD unix behaviour.
