>>>>> "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
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Scott Lystig Fritchie
Professional Governing: Is It Faked?

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