Disk 100% busy

[Will Saxon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Jakubik [mailto:mikej at rogers.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 5:21 PM
> To: Will Saxon
> Cc: Ronald Klop; stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Disk 100% busy
> 
> 
> On Sun, October 16, 2005 1:53 pm, Will Saxon wrote:
> 
> > I completely forgot that I had the partition mounted 
> 'sync'. That might
> > explain things a bit, huh.
> 
> 
> Do NOT mount the partition async, you are asking for 
> filesystem corruption.

I was not planning to. I was thinking though that without 
softupdates and with sync, the disk would stay a lot busier. 

Since I have enabled softupdates, the disk is not nearly as busy. 
I may lose some mail if the machines panics for some reason, but 
I think that is not likely. 

> 
> > I am using qmail - the author indicates that softupdates is not
> > recommended. However, I am going to give it a shot and see 
> if I start
> > losing mail as he suggests may happen.
> 
> Do yourself a big favor, and switch from this historic piece 
> of software
> to something like Postfix.

BSD has been around since the 70s, any suggestions for something 
more modern?

Thanks for the response. 

-Will