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From: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Cc: "Jeff Layton" <jlayton@redhat.com>, 焦晓冬 <milestonejxd@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: POSIX violation by writeback error
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:39:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3805399.0d8HT3LL4o@merkaba> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180905070847.GC24519@BitWizard.nl>

Rogier Wolff - 05.09.18, 09:08:
> So when a mail queuer puts mail the mailq files and the mail processor
> can get them out of there intact, nobody is going to notice.  (I know
> mail queuers should call fsync and report errors when that fails, but
> there are bound to be applications where calling fsync is not
> appropriate (*))

AFAIK at least Postfix MDA only reports mail as being accepted over SMTP 
once fsync() on the mail file completed successfully. And I�d expect 
every sensible MDA to do this. I don�t know how Dovecot MDA which I 
currently use for sieve support does this tough.

-- 
Martin

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-05 12:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-04  6:32 POSIX violation by writeback error 焦晓冬
2018-09-04  7:53 ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-04  8:58   ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-04  9:29     ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-04 10:45       ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-04 11:09     ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-04 14:56       ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-04 15:44         ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-04 16:12           ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-09-04 16:23             ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-04 18:54               ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-09-04 20:18                 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-04 20:35                   ` Vito Caputo
2018-09-04 21:02                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-09-05  0:51                     ` Dave Chinner
2018-09-05  8:24                   ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-05 10:55                     ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-05 12:07                       ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-06  2:57                         ` Dave Chinner
2018-09-06  9:17                           ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-24 23:09                             ` Alan Cox
2018-09-05 13:53                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-09-05  7:08           ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-05  7:39             ` Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2018-09-05  8:04               ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-05  8:37                 ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-05 12:07                   ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2018-09-05 12:46                     ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-05  9:32                 ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-09-05  7:37           ` Martin Steigerwald
2018-09-05 11:42             ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-05  8:09           ` 焦晓冬
2018-09-05 13:08             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-24 23:21               ` Alan Cox
2018-09-06  7:28             ` 焦晓冬
     [not found] <CAJDTihx2yaR-_-9Ks1PoFcrKNZgUOoLdN-wRTTMV76Jg_dCLrw@mail.gmail.com>
2018-09-04 10:56 ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-24 23:30   ` Alan Cox
2018-09-25 11:15     ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-25 15:46       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-25 16:17         ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-25 16:39         ` Alan Cox
2018-09-25 16:41         ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-25 22:30           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-26 18:10             ` Alan Cox
2018-09-26 21:49               ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-27 22:48                 ` Alan Cox
2018-09-27  7:18               ` Rogier Wolff
2018-09-27 12:43             ` Jeff Layton
2018-09-27 14:27               ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-09-25 17:35         ` Adam Borowski
2018-09-25 22:46           ` Theodore Y. Ts'o

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