[Dovecot] Best filesystem?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jan 31 01:07:32 EET 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 00:03 +0100, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:
> > 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 ?

Depends on what mail_fsync has been set to. As long as it's not "never",
then it should be non-issue for Dovecot.




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