Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2001 11:54:55 -0500 (CDT) | From | Oliver Xymoron <> |
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:50:51AM -0500, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:47:58PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > > > > > Just set chattr +S on the spool dir. That's what the flag is for. > > > > The biggest problem with that is that it propagates to subdirectories > > > > and files --- would a version of the flag which applied only to > > > > directories be a help here? > > > > > > That's probably the right thing to add. > > > > I'd vote for an async flag instead. > > Why??? Why change the default behaviour to be something much slower?
I was suggesting an async flag _in addition_ to the sync flag, both propagating to subdirs. Nice and orthogonal.
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