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From: Petri Kaukasoina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: Qmail's queue directory & Linux
>On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 10:48:39AM +0300, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
&g
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 10:48:39AM +0300, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> 7. ../testprog
> 8. switch off the power
> 9. switch on the power
> 10. after fsck look for the file "testfile" in the directories testdir and
> lost+found (under the mount point of the file system)
>
> If the chattr
Petri Kaukasoina writes:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 08:04:53AM +0200, Peter van der Landen wrote:
> > The Cyrus documentation suggests using chattr -R +S on the queue directories
> > as well as the mailboxes. Would that be less effective than using a
> > sync-mounted filesystem?
>
> Dan fsyn
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 09:49:27AM +0300, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> You can try it yourself to see if it works or not with kernels today:
> ...
Actually that might not be a valid test because file2 was not fsynced. It's
hard to remember what was done a year ago... But I used a program similar to
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 08:04:53AM +0200, Peter van der Landen wrote:
> The Cyrus documentation suggests using chattr -R +S on the queue directories
> as well as the mailboxes. Would that be less effective than using a
> sync-mounted filesystem?
Dan fsyncs explicitely all the _files_ when needed,
-Original Message-
From: Petri Kaukasoina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: Qmail's queue directory & Linux
>On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 05:22:46PM -0700, Russell Steffen wrote:
>&g
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 05:22:46PM -0700, Russell Steffen wrote:
> This obviously implies that having the queue on a separate partition or
> disk for Linux systems is a good thing (so that it can be mounted with
> "sync").
If you want to do that then you want a sync filesystem for the
Maildirs/mb
On 23 Jun 1999, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> Peter van der Landen writes:
> > Should I conclude from this that somehow Linux is extra vulnerable to queue
> > corruption
>
> Yes. See http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/faq/reliability.html for some
> discussion of this issue.
>
> ---Dan
This obviously impl
Peter van der Landen writes:
> Should I conclude from this that somehow Linux is extra vulnerable to queue
> corruption
Yes. See http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail/faq/reliability.html for some
discussion of this issue.
---Dan
On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 12:07:11PM +0200, Peter van der Landen wrote:
> >Also set the queue directory of the mail daemon to update
> >synchronously. The following example is for sendmail:
> >
> > /sbin/chattr +S /var/spool/mqueue
>
> Should I conclude from this that somehow Linux is ext
L.S,
The following section is from the Installing & Configuring page of the Cyrus
IMAP server:
>8.LINUX SYSTEMS ONLY: Set the configuration, user, quota, and partition
>directories to update synchronously.
>Failure to do this may lead to data corruption and/or loss of mail
>after a system cr
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