courier-imap/maildrop now doing proper fsync'ing

Dax Kelson (dax@gurulabs.com)
12 Nov 2002 17:44:01 -0700

The newest versions of courier-imap, a maildir POP3/POP3S/IMAP/IMAPS
server, and maildrop, a MDA, now have a compile time configure option:

--with-dirsync

Should it now be safe to run ext3 filesystems (that contain the
maildirs) with data=writeback?

BTW, procmail isn't doing proper fsyncing when writing to a maildir.

Dax

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