Re: [Exim] Reliability of spool/delivery handling (Linux)?

* Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@???> [010827 19:47]:
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> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 09:34:40 +0100, Rasputin wrote:
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> > It made perfromance on BSD suck, since every byte written caused an
> > fsync() call, despite the fact the at the time FreeBSD mounted it's
> > disks synchronously.
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> Any BSD administrator worth her salt knows about Soft Updates by this
> stage.

That makes no difference if an app insists on calling fsync()
unneccessarily, does it? You still take performance hits.
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