From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@valinux.com>,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
Andrew McNamara <andrewm@connect.com.au>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext2, fsync() and MTA's?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 17:48:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010522174825.Q8080@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010521180405.D495@think.thunk.org> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105221045530.19818-100000@waste.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0105221045530.19818-100000@waste.org>; from oxymoron@waste.org on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:50:51AM -0500
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-22 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-12 11:50 Ext2, fsync() and MTA's? Andrew McNamara
2001-05-12 14:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-12 14:53 ` Andrew McNamara
2001-05-12 15:20 ` Theodore Tso
2001-05-21 17:47 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-21 22:04 ` Theodore Tso
2001-05-22 15:50 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 16:48 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2001-05-22 16:54 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 16:57 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-24 1:48 ` Marco d'Itri
2001-05-21 17:41 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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