[Dovecot] Deliver error - fdatasync_path

[Daniel L. Miller]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 08:59 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
>   
>>> Some OSes/filesystems don't like that. This should help:
>>> http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/71b7c7f8d7a2
>>>       
>
>   
>> 1st question...hmm...wow.  Is that a patch you just wrote?!  Cool!
>>
>> Hmm...since I'm running on a pre-compiled package...is this an error I 
>> can simply ignore?  Your patch seems to indicate you're just ignoring 
>> the result of the fsync call.
>>     
>
> With dbox yes, you can just ignore the error. Maildir probably would
> give user-visible errors.
>
>   
Why the difference?  I can see a big deal for mbox - but why Maildir?

-- 
Daniel