From: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Cc: "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@redhat.com>, 焦晓冬 <milestonejxd@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: POSIX violation by writeback error
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:39:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3805399.0d8HT3LL4o@merkaba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180905070847.GC24519@BitWizard.nl>
Rogier Wolff - 05.09.18, 09:08:
> So when a mail queuer puts mail the mailq files and the mail processor
> can get them out of there intact, nobody is going to notice. (I know
> mail queuers should call fsync and report errors when that fails, but
> there are bound to be applications where calling fsync is not
> appropriate (*))
AFAIK at least Postfix MDA only reports mail as being accepted over SMTP
once fsync() on the mail file completed successfully. And I�d expect
every sensible MDA to do this. I don�t know how Dovecot MDA which I
currently use for sieve support does this tough.
--
Martin
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From: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Cc: "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@redhat.com>, 焦晓冬 <milestonejxd@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: POSIX violation by writeback error
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:39:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3805399.0d8HT3LL4o@merkaba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180905070847.GC24519@BitWizard.nl>
Rogier Wolff - 05.09.18, 09:08:
> So when a mail queuer puts mail the mailq files and the mail processor
> can get them out of there intact, nobody is going to notice. (I know
> mail queuers should call fsync and report errors when that fails, but
> there are bound to be applications where calling fsync is not
> appropriate (*))
AFAIK at least Postfix MDA only reports mail as being accepted over SMTP
once fsync() on the mail file completed successfully. And I´d expect
every sensible MDA to do this. I don´t know how Dovecot MDA which I
currently use for sieve support does this tough.
--
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-05 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-04 6:32 POSIX violation by writeback error 焦晓冬
2018-09-04 7:53 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-04 8:58 ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-04 9:29 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-04 10:45 ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-04 11:09 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-04 14:56 ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-04 15:44 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-04 16:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-09-04 16:23 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-04 18:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-09-04 20:18 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-04 20:35 ` Vito Caputo
2018-09-04 21:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-09-05 0:51 ` Dave Chinner
2018-09-05 8:24 ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-05 10:55 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-05 12:07 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-06 2:57 ` Dave Chinner
2018-09-06 2:57 ` Dave Chinner
2018-09-06 9:17 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-24 23:09 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-05 13:53 ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-09-05 7:08 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-05 7:39 ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2018-09-05 7:39 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-09-05 8:04 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-05 8:04 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-05 8:37 ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-05 12:07 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-09-05 12:46 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-05 9:32 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-09-05 9:32 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-09-05 7:37 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-09-05 11:42 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-05 8:09 ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-05 13:08 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-24 23:21 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-06 7:28 ` 焦晓冬
[not found] <CAJDTihx2yaR-_-9Ks1PoFcrKNZgUOoLdN-wRTTMV76Jg_dCLrw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-09-04 10:56 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-24 23:30 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-25 11:15 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-25 15:46 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-25 16:17 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-25 16:39 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-25 16:41 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-25 22:30 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-26 18:10 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-26 21:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-27 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-27 7:18 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-27 12:43 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-27 14:27 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-25 17:35 ` Adam Borowski
2018-09-25 22:46 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
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