31 Jan
2011
31 Jan
'11
11:13 p.m.
On 1/30/11 5:07 PM -0600 Stan Hoeppner wrote:
To be clear, for any subscribers who haven't followed all of the various filesystem and data security threads, with any modern *nix system, you WILL lose data when power fails.
No, you won't, at least not necessarily.
I know I'm replying with just about the same content multiple times but there are multiple messages where you are spreading this misinformation.
It is possible to configure a file system to not suffer from data loss on power loss, and for mail stores that is generally the desired behavior.