Dan Melomedman writes: > Sam Varshavchik writes: > >> DJB is not widely known as a major Linux authority. >> >> -- >> Sam > > I just wanted to know the behavior of sqwebmail when running under Linux. > > Do I have to mount my FS 'sync' in order for sqwebmail to flush files > (data + metadata) before returning? Performance is not an issue right now.
Don't bother. This is a tempest in a teapot. sqwebmail doesn't write out much of anything except when writing new messages. The rest of the time it simply moves stuff from one directory to another. Well, sqwebmail does write out an index file for each folder. But it's written from scratch each time the folder changes, so a crash won't affect things much. The way I look at this: if you need fault tolerance, use fault-tolerant hardware, so a crash is not an issue. -- Sam
