Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Len Budney wrote:
>
> > Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, hell, you'll probably lose mail even if you're running a
> > > journaling filesystem...
> >
> > False. Mail will not be lost if if rename() or link() (depending on
>
> Who said anything about the message already being on the filesystem?
Then your comment was utterly inane. Any MTA which returns success
before writing a message to the filesystem, and syncing it, should be
thrown away. Any MUA which doesn't check exit status of the MTA should
be thrown away. Authors of such junk should be flogged.
(My remark applies to qmail 2, as well. Zeroseek will build compressed
journals, but the journal entry had better be on disk before success
is returned.)
Len.
--
Cryptographic systems are broken constantly, but the attacks are almost
never against the algorithms. The really difficult problems in security
systems are key distribution, management, reliability, robustness, etc.
-- Bruce Schneier
