[Mailman-Developers] What happens with mailman after a crash

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:26 AM -0800 2004/01/27, Les Niles wrote:

>                   I've had to rebuild a couple of list config
>  databases, and toss out a few corrupted pending pickles.  We plan
>  to try the synchronous-write option, do backups (!), and maybe even
>  replace the flakey hardware that's been causing the crashes.

	You could also change the filesystem where the mailman queue 
directory is located, so as to remove any asynchronous or delayed 
writes that are used by the filesystem, above and beyond any mailman 
SYNC_AFTER_WRITE feature that may or may not be enabled.  You could 
alternatively run on a journaling filesystem, which should also help.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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