Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:20:25 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:06:29 -0200 > From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [...] > You can also play with the +S attribute on ext3, to enforce data ordering > (as well as the alredy enforced metadata ordering) in some subdirs. > > It shouldn't be necessary to force any additional consistency on ext3 > over the default, since Cyrus calls fsync() appropriately. Interesting. And what about the Berkeley DB libs (3 and up)? If they do so as well, it is actually a good reason NOT to enable +S (which is quite sluggish). There should be no need to force synchronous writes using ext3. Larry
