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Drive mirroring - opinion wanted



On Jun 8, 2009, at 3:23 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Not necessarily.  As of sendmail 8.12, you can set the delievery  
> type to
> 'interactive' (and SuperSafe to interactive), and it will only write  
> the
> message to disk if the first delivery attempt fails.


That's a pretty big "if", in my opinion.

On Jun 8, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> A typical drive fault won't prevent the drive from working. If the  
> problem is that catastrophic, you'll likely notice it in other ways.

True.  It's the atypical fault that needs to be accommodated.  Mail  
alone is not sufficient.

--Rich P.







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