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Subject: Re: SCSI, U2W in particular?, and poor performance...
From: Craig Sanders (castaz.net.au)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 15:29:00 CST

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 01:56:29PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> (*) for that, Linus recommends that the application open()s the
> directory and fsync()s it. Right. When pigs fly. Fortunately we still
> have a choice of operating systems.

what exactly is the problem with doing that if:

a) it can be wrapped in "#ifdef linux" so it doesn't affect compilation on
   other systems, and
b) doing so will safely speed up postfix on linux?

is it just an aesthetic distaste for doing something "ugly" or is there a
good technical reason for not doing it?

craig

ps: yes, using reiserfs would be better - but it's not a standard part
of the kernel yet and many people won't (or don't know how to) use
experimental patches. 

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craig sanders