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From: "Danny Milosavljevic" <danny_milo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Which version will be merged into mainline kernel?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:17:38 +0000 (UTC)
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Hi,

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:34:59 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:

> David Masover wrote:
>> Christopher Chan wrote:
> [...smartdrv...]

Yeah, smartdrv was nice :)

[...]
> Try arguing why you lost thousands of mails when the box crashed and 
> justifying it.

Oh. Good point.

So the bad case is:
1. mails are tiny
2. RAM cache is big
3. cache doesn't get flushed to disk for 1000s of mails
4. crash happens seldomly, but severely :)
-> 1000s of mail lost by the crash

Now I see :)

cheers,
  Danny