Re: egg on MY face

[Len Budney]

Andre Oppermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Appearantly you mixed something up here. FFS never did journaling and
> neither does softupdates.

Indeed. :( Apparently, I misread the following about two years ago,
and never looked back:

   qmail's queue (except for bounce message contents) is crashproof if
   the filesystem guarantees that single-byte writes are atomic and that
   directory operations are synchronous. These guarantees are provided by
   the BSD FFS and its derivatives, and by typical journaling filesystems.

I'll call you back when I learn to read,
Len.

--
When the OS already provides a simple, widely used, thoroughly tested
mechanism, it makes no sense to give every program a half-assed
imitation of the same mechanism.
                                -- Dan Bernstein