You are positively ignorant. No need to regurgitate this all over again. Take your toy mail implementation and enjoy your hair.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 08:47:14PM +0000, nixlists wrote: > What are you running? Exchange?? > > Redundancy is nice, but email back-ups are futile. Backups might save > from most, but not all lost messages after a crash. > > Anyway, before we divert to a some other topic, someone please answer > the question for the simplest case - we've already decided that every > RAID controller in the world cannot be trusted: > > Now SATA controller - no cache, SATA disk - write-back cache disabled. > FFS mounted 'sync' on it. In most cases, can rename() provide the > quarantee as its man page? By most cases I mean typical usage > day-to-day usage without single-bit or other errors, or hardware going > flaky. I do know errors happen, ok? > > Thanks!

