[Dovecot] 1.0.rc22 released

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 11:41 -0800, Dan Price wrote:
> Because ZFS gathers writes into transaction groups and schedules them
> for asynchronous write to the platter, we often see very large mailboxes
> complete their writes very fast (example: 0.3 seconds for 128MB
> mailbox fully rewritten).  When dovecot calls fsync on the mailbox, ZFS
> is forced to commit all of those changes to the platter right then and
> there, and forces the application to wait.  (ZFS will make sure all the
> changes get to the platter in the next 10 seconds or so anyway).

What about if you remove the fsync() call only in
lib-storage/index/mbox/mbox-sync.c? I think I'll go and remove that
anyway, since it doesn't really guarantee anything in there. The other
fsyncs and fdatasyncs are more useful in guaranteeing data integrity.

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