> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Jakubik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 5:21 PM > To: Will Saxon > Cc: Ronald Klop; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Disk 100% busy > > > On Sun, October 16, 2005 1:53 pm, Will Saxon wrote: > > > I completely forgot that I had the partition mounted > 'sync'. That might > > explain things a bit, huh. > > > Do NOT mount the partition async, you are asking for > filesystem corruption.
I was not planning to. I was thinking though that without softupdates and with sync, the disk would stay a lot busier. Since I have enabled softupdates, the disk is not nearly as busy. I may lose some mail if the machines panics for some reason, but I think that is not likely. > > > I am using qmail - the author indicates that softupdates is not > > recommended. However, I am going to give it a shot and see > if I start > > losing mail as he suggests may happen. > > Do yourself a big favor, and switch from this historic piece > of software > to something like Postfix. BSD has been around since the 70s, any suggestions for something more modern? Thanks for the response. -Will _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
