On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:01:51PM +0200, Liviu Daia wrote:
> So, your experiment doesn't prove anything, with or without
> libsyncdir, and with or without synch updates.

What can I say? :-)

I don't say that I have anything to prove. But, using libsyncdir,
I got all of those 1000 mails (note I repeat the test several times).
I got the same results if I set maildir directory updates synchronously
(chattr +S). Using mailbox instead of maildir, I got all of those 1000
mails.

I guess that, because link/unlik operations on ext2/ext3 isn't
done 'synchronously' (it do not fsync() parent directory), then using
maildir on top of those fs is not 'safe'.

BTW, I already mention that I got more than 1000 mails using
ext3 before. That information is incomplete (inaccurate) I got
more than 1000 mails if I disable synchronous updates on postfix's
spool (using chattr -S) on top of ext3 partition.

Regards,

P.Y. Adi Prasaja

-
To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomopostfix.org with content
(not subject): unsubscribe postfix-users

• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]