Re: intermediate summary of ext3-2.4-0.9.4 thread

Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 02:16:42 +0200


On Fri, 03 Aug 2001, Paul Jakma wrote:

> if the prime directive of MTAs is data integrity paranoia, then
> surely the best assumption for an MTA to make is that
> rename/link/unlink/symlink /are/ asynchronous in the general case?

They do on Linux, use chattr +S, and are much slower than e. g. on
FreeBSD. Well. Not that I'd written THAT for the first time...
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