There's a big thread about filesystems on postfix-users@postfix.org Could you shed some light on that issue? ----- Forwarded message from Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org> ----- From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 07:53:26 -0500 (EST) To: Lawrence Greenfield <leg+@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: Wietse Venema <wietse@porcupine.org>, postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: syncronous directory operation for linux (ext2) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] Lawrence Greenfield: > Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 22:22:25 -0500 (EST) > From: wietse@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) > > This patch is not useful. On Linux file systems it has no effect > at all. On FFS it has no useful effect at all, either unless soft > updates are turned on, which is not the default. > > Huh? That's not true at all. > > On ext3fs, the fsync() afterwards will flush the log, thus forcing the > link() to disk, just like it forces the link() to disk in softupdates. fsync() flushes the whole damned ext3 log? That would be lame. I expected they fixed that behavior long ago. Wietse - To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@postfix.org with content (not subject): unsubscribe postfix-users ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V A) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Referat V A - Kommunikationsnetze - Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 "I rigged my cellular to send a message to my PDA, which is online with my PC, to get it to activate the voicemail, which sends the message to the inbox of my email, which routes it to the PDA, which beams it back to the cellular. Then I realized my gadgets have a better social life than I do." !" - Tom Ostad.
