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
