On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
..
> > So postfix won't like running on a reiserfs partition then, since it
> > wants to 'chattr +S' the stuff that should be guaranteed
> > synced-on-write.
> 
> I don't know of an MTA that will "like" running on ReiserFS with its lack
> for that 'chattr +S' capability (for now). It works, though. It's just
> that you may lose mail if the power to the computer dies at the right ...
> err, wrong, time.

I am probably just ignorant but I've written an MTA in Perl that talks to
Postfix. It certainly works quite well on ReiserFS. I got around the
lack-of-locking on ReiserFS by using dot-locking (which coincidentally
also works over NFS, thus solving my clustering issues nicely).



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