Re: 2.4.x has finally made it!

[Kai Henningsen]

[e-mail] (Matthias Andree)  wrote on 13.11.01 in <[e-mail]>:

> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Alastair Stevens wrote:
>
> > For those who haven't seen it yet, Moshe Bar at BYTE.com has revisited his
> > Linux 2.4 vs FreeBSD benchmarks, using 2.4.12 in this case:
> >
> >  http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html
>
> Wow. That person is knowledgeable... NOT. Turning off fsync() for mail
> is just as good as piping it to /dev/null. See RFC-1123.

I rather think a non-fsync() system has a very much higher rate of  
successful mail deliveries than a /dev/null one, and only slightly (if at  
all) lower than a fsync() one.

Now, that slight difference *can* be rather important if you're a major  
mail hub - or it can be below the noise level in an end user system. In  
either case, however, *nobody* will accept /dev/null as an equivalent  
substitute.

Well, nobody but you.

MfG Kai