[Dovecot] Best filesystem?

Jan-Frode Myklebust janfrode at tanso.net
Mon Jan 31 01:03:39 EET 2011


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:40:11AM +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 16:13 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > >>> be, but it still gives you 0 byte files, so make sure you have a good UPS
> ..
> > "Q: Why do I see binary NULLS in some files after recovery when I unplugged the
> > power?
> 
> 0 byte files != NULL bytes in files. My guess is it's the same problem
> as described in
> http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/
> 

But is it relevant for dovecot ? Isn't dovecot doing the necessary
fsync()'s, so this should really be a non-issue ?


  -jf


  -jf


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