I hope nobody minds this rather newbie remark but I have been attempting to follow
this thread through its duration and was
wondering if someone could explain now it's concluded which is the optimum filesystem
to use for qmail in general and
which is the best available under linux. And also will the offering from ibm to the OS
community be worth watching for this
application? Thanks all,
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000 10:13:18 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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
