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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:36:16 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=)
Cc:        peter@jhome.dialix.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-libexec@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/libexec/mail.local Makefile mail.local.c
Message-ID:  <199510310936.KAA11541@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <eBISUbmi04@ache.dialup.demos.ru> from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Oct 31, 95 12:06:26 pm

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As =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote:
> 
> fsync in mail.local is evil probably only on UUCP sites when large
> mail chunks parsed at once, on SMTP sites mail usually
> arrives in async. order, so it not hits.

Even though i'm as affected as you are (i get everything via UUCP), i
wouldn't waste a nanosecond in thinking about _not_ fsynch'ing there.
As well as i would not mount anything else than /tmp with the async
option.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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