Charles Cazabon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So for safety, you either have to mount the filesystem with synchonous
metadata (as I said above),
But AIUI, you can't mount the filesystem so that *only* metadata is
synchronous. The sync option makes *all* operations synchronous, so
performance
Paul Jarc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So for safety, you either have to mount the filesystem with synchonous
metadata (as I said above),
But AIUI, you can't mount the filesystem so that *only* metadata is
synchronous. The sync option makes *all* operations synchronous, so
performance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to get a bit of advice on this one. I know that NFS
is a big no-no when using qmail due to the way it handles the
queue. I also know that qmail may have trouble with certain
journaling filesystems (for example, reiserfs) because qmail
assumes that link()
James R Grinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ie. semantics that local Unix filesystems are supposed to conform to
(but which Reiserfs apparently doesn't).
I believe there's a small patch to qmail somewhere on the ReiserFS site
which makes qmail as safe on that filesystem as on ext2 with
---Original Message---
Charles Cazabon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
I believe there's a small patch to qmail somewhere on the ReiserFS
sitewhich makes qmail as safe on that filesystem as on ext2 with
Alex Kramarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe there's a small patch to qmail somewhere on the ReiserFS site
which makes qmail as safe on that filesystem as on ext2 with synchronous
metadata.
The patch info says :
Qmail was designed for BSD-like filesystems. And it is unreliable under
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 04:44:55PM +0200, Alex Kramarov wrote:
[snip]
Is this really true, about EXT2 being unreliable as well ?
Yes.
Greetz, Peter.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:52:01AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
So for safety, you either have to mount the filesystem with synchonous
metadata (as I said above), or have your program sync the directory of a file
after syncing the file. Bruce Guenter's SRPM of qmail includes a patch
which
also know that qmail may have trouble with certain
journaling filesystems (for example, reiserfs) because qmail
assumes that link() and unlink() are syncronous operations
(according to the reiserfs FAQ).
So my question boils down to, has anyone ever tried using
qmail and GFS? I've been following the ma
