On Nov 20, 2007, at 15:38, Ken Murchison wrote: > Pascal Gienger wrote: >> Rob Banz <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> We went through a similar discussion last year in OpenAFS land, and >>> came the same conclusion -- basically, if your filesystem is >>> reasonably reliable (such as ZFS is), and you can trust your >>> underlying storage not to lose transactions that are in-cache >>> during a >>> 'bad event', the added benefit of fsync() may be less than its >>> performance cost. >> Would'nt it be nice to have a configuration option to completely >> turn off fsync() in Cyrus? If you want, with a BIG WARNING in the >> doc stating NOT TO USE IT unless you know what you doing. :) > > Its already in imapd.conf(8): > > skiplist_unsafe Well shiver me timbers! Ya'll rock. -rob ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
