Jan, what do you think about this discussion?
Is it safe / needed / discouraged to use fsync and lock on a codafs?

We're speaking about qmail + vpopmail 4.10.24 on Coda.

Thank you for your time.
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Cordiali saluti / Best regards
Andrea Cerrito
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> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: inter7 [mailto:inter7]Per conto di Ken Jones
> Inviato: mercoledi 27 giugno 2001 16.23
> A: Andrea Cerrito
> Cc: Marcus Williams
> Oggetto: Re: R: Coda and VPOPMAIL
> 
> 
> Andrea Cerrito wrote:
> > 
> > By the way, what do you think about --enable-file-sync
> > and --enable-file-locking about Coda?
> > Repeat, I'm a newbie and I don't know advantages / disavantages 
> about these
> > options.
> 
> I added --enable-file-sync=n to turn off fsyncing email deliveries.
> Why? This mail server ends up doing about 40 fsync's a second. and
> processes *alot* of mail. If the machine crashes and they lose
> some emails, it is worth the risk. And it vastly increases the
> performance.
> 
> I added --enable-file-locking=n to make it work with a broken
> NFS implementation. The only problem is only one domain can
> be added at a time.
> 
> By default they are enabled =y