Re: 2.4.x has finally made it!

From: Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 01:18:18 EST


Matthias Andree writes:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Alastair Stevens wrote:

>> For those who haven't seen it yet, Moshe Bar at BYTE.com has revisited his
>> Linux 2.4 vs FreeBSD benchmarks, using 2.4.12 in this case:
>>
>> http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1794/byt20011107s0001/1112_moshe.html
>
> Wow. That person is knowledgeable... NOT. Turning off fsync() for mail
> is just as good as piping it to /dev/null. See RFC-1123.

The same could be said of any mail server that isn't RAID at
the very least. Oh, let's demand an off-site backup before
returning an OK status to the sender, and one of those S/390
processors that runs two pipelines in lock-step to detect
errors in the CPU. Swat the very last kernel bug too BTW.

Really, this isn't a big deal. Maybe it wasn't the best choice.
The drive probably lies to the OS anyway, so get over it.
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