On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:49:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-02-01 19:23 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > The question is, why did I lose the data? Isn't the journal in ext3 > > supposed to prevent this from happening? > > No. The purpose of a journal is to ensure data integrity, not to make > sure the disk is always in sync with the file data cache. If you want > that, you have to mount the filesystem with the `sync' option (which > will result in a big performance loss). > > My hunch is that your mails never made it to the disk and are lost for > good. FWIW, I'd recommend to leave mails on the server, if you are > using POP3, to ensure they aren't lost in case of a power failure. >
They did make it to disk since it was an ongoing thread and some I left there from last night. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
