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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 17:48:25 +0100
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>,
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Subject: Re: Ext2, fsync() and MTA's?
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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