>>>>> "s" == Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: s> On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Len Budney wrote: >> For asynchrony, maildir rules the world. But uses space and inodes, >> and scans slowly. s> Perhaps that's true on some some platform that uses a substandard s> filesystem. The default allocation of the Linux ext2 filesystem s> suits Maildirs just fine. And I can't wait to see what ext3 will s> do... The default policy for ext2 is to perform directory updates asynchronously. That's great for performance, but not so great if you're concerned about file loss in an ugly crash. I have no idea how close that ext3's performance, with its log enabled, will come to ext2's async behavior. -Scott --- Scott Lystig Fritchie Professional Governing: Is It Faked?
