Re: xfs, reiserfs, ext2 and sync directory updates

2001-07-20 Thread Jeremy Lunn
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:00:13PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > Causes of mail loss I've seen include failings of Sun Cluster manager (which > trashes file systems and presumably loses files). Crashes of commercial mail > server software also tends to lose lots of mail. Then there's the issue

Re: xfs, reiserfs, ext2 and sync directory updates

2001-07-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:19, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: > > "CS" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (quoting Russel Coker, all snipped sorry if snipped too much) > RC> I haven't bothered investigating this in depth. If one of my > RC> servers crashes the possibility that on

Re: xfs, reiserfs, ext2 and sync directory updates

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:19:29PM -0400, Bulent Murtezaoglu wrote: > Hmm. I beg to differ. I expect people I buy infrastructure from to > care about not losing mail. If the daemon 250's the DATA in the SMTP > conversation it should guard it with more than its life. In an ideal > world. i car

xfs, reiserfs, ext2 and sync directory updates

2001-07-19 Thread Bulent Murtezaoglu
> "CS" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (quoting Russel Coker, all snipped sorry if snipped too much) RC> I haven't bothered investigating this in depth. If one of my RC> servers crashes the possibility that one message may be lost is RC> really the least of my concern

xfs, reiserfs, ext2 and sync directory updates

2001-07-19 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 06:06:55PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:48, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote: > > CS> if i was running a news spool or a large Maildir/ spool, i think i'd > > CS> stick with reiserfs but this is my workstation, where i have lots of > > CS> large files (inc