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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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