On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 07:23:22PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> No, I'm happy about that. The more "popular" linux became the more bloated
> it became.
I doubt the bloat will kill it, since bloat is mostly in the abundance
of drivers Linux kernel has. Most can be compiled as modules and loaded
on demand. You usually compile the support that's needed for your site
into the kernel.
> It's a matter of fact that qmail isn't as reliable on Linux as on *BSD as it
> relies on some FFS semantics ext2fs just doen not fulfill.
This is not true, ext2fs can be mounted sync, and there are patches for
Qmail to sync data. Linux allows for more flexibility in syncing: a
metadata sync and a file sync can be separate calls. In addition you
do not have to use ext2fs. There are people who use ReiserFS with Qmail,
XFS and JFS and EXT3FS support is maturing too. Again, choose the right
tool for the job.
