QMail and SoftUpdates

[Julian Elischer]

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> =On Tue, 18 May 2004, Don Lewis wrote:
> =
> => On 18 May, Julian Elischer wrote:
> => > 
> => > 
> =[...]
> =
> => > 
> => > An fsync will sync ALL directory entries pointing to the file
> => 
> => I haven't looked at how qmail works, but my suspicion is that it
> => fsync()s the file and then creates a link (and probably unlinks
> => the old name) to mark the queue file as valid and is not partially
> => written. I think this would work with softupdates if the file were
> => fsync()ed again after the link() call. I won't comment about why this
> => change is unlikely to make it into the code.
> =
> =a single fsync AFTER the link but before acking the mail would be
> =sufficient.
> 
> Should the mail/qmail port do that?

it certainly could...

> 
> 	-mi
> 
>