On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 04:20, Wietse Venema wrote: > ext3 is unsafe for maildir, and with softupdates, so is ffs. > One step forwards, two steps back. > > Fortunately, some people still have a choice. > > Wietse For the newbies among us (me :) would you mind explaining what exactly causes it to be unsafe? As far I know (but like I said, I'm just a noob) ext3 is journalling metadata and data so I cannot understand how data could be lost. Regards, Erik Smit
