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

[Jeff Warnica]

I just happen to remember a note from the Cyrus-IMAP docs that may help you, if
you happen to be running linux with ext2. Quote: "LINUX SYSTEMS USING EXT2FS
ONLY: Set the user, quota, and partition directories to update synchronously."

http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/download/imapd/install-configure.html

Quoting John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>:

> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 13:26, Les Niles wrote:
>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:39:24 -0800 "Somuchfun" 
>> <somuchfun at atlantismail.com> wrote:
>> >I have a question in regards to mailman's recovery abilities.
>> >Let's say mailman is running and sending out messages to a large list and
>> >the machine crashes or is rebooted, does mailman pickup where it 
>> stopped? Or
>> >is the run gone forever?
>>
>> I've had way too much experience with this lately... :(
>>
>> Mailman soldiers on just fine.  The problems we've run into are
>> with some of mailman's files getting corrupted because they weren't
>> synced to disk when the machine crashed -- the standard problem
>> with any crash.  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.
>>
>
> Doesn't the new SYNC_AFTER_WRITE flag address this issue? Here is the doc
> for it:
>