Re: Linux kernel turning for mail performance?

[cmikk]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 09:05:35 -0500 , "Len Budney" writes:
> Agreed; that's a serious issue. I would recommend switching to a better
> synchronous filesystem, though, rather than using ext2 async.
> 
> Unfortunately, Linux offers few choices there.  The BSD fs would be great
> if it wasn't so immature under Linux;

However, it's quite mature under *BSD ;-)

Using softupdates under *BSD gives you the reliability
of sync (somewhat more, actually), with nearly the speed
of async.

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