We are running Qmail on Reiser and have been very happy. You can see one
thread in this list from me where we got intermittent errors from qmail when
doing a lot of mailings at a time. We discovered that the qmail patch for
Reiser caused the error. Look for 'qmail-inject error' from me in the list.
The only time that this combo is "dangerous" if when you have a system
crash. Because neither ext2 (AFAIK) or Reiser sync the disk when creating a
link, there is a possibility that if the system crashed before the kernel
synced the disk, a mail can be lost. Evidently on BSD when a link is made
it is immediately sync to disk. However, with my understanding of Reiser
and it being a journaling FS, this should never cause a problem. I would
however suggest making the small change to the patched code so that you do
not get senseless errors.
Brian Moon
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gonzalez/netMDC admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Nick (Keith) Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Qmail Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: ReiserFs and qmail
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Nick (Keith) Fish wrote:
>
> > I am not sure about the recommendation to lower the conf-split, since,
> > again, I am not in any way familiar with ReiserFS's operation.
Generally
> > you want a large split since filesystems perform better with many
> > directories with a couple of files than a few directories with lots of
> > files. My advice, test it for yourself; just make sure you are using a
> > prime number for the split.
>
> ReiserFS negates the need for this, as that is one of the strong suits of
> the FS...
>
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