Re: Ext2, fsync() and MTA's?

Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-22T16:49:04Z

Hi,

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:50:51AM -0500, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:47:58PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> >
> > > Just set chattr +S on the spool dir. That's what the flag is for.
> > > The biggest problem with that is that it propagates to subdirectories
> > > and files --- would a version of the flag which applied only to
> > > directories be a help here?
> >
> > That's probably the right thing to add.
>
> I'd vote for an async flag instead.

Why??? Why change the default behaviour to be something much slower?

Cheers,
Stephen