On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:46:36PM -0400, Dan Melomedman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 02:37:25PM -0400, Martin wrote:
> >
> > Standard linux`s filesystem buffers a lot of stuff, which is why it
> > appears fast.
> > The downside is...if there is a hardware induced crash or loss of power
> > then all that buffered data will be lost.
> > There is nothing qmail, postfix or sendmail can do about that.
> > You may have heard of async and sync before. Look them up (ie. search)
> > for more info
>
> Who says you can't mount extfs "sync"? It's write-back when mounted
> "async", write-through when mounted "sync". Same goes for FFS, it's just
> *BSDS ship with "sync" in /etc/fstab.
Nonsense. default mount is "normal". BSD knows three modes, async, normal
and sync.
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