[geeks] Choice of filesystem for /var

[Phil Stracchino]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 04:28:56PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Joshua Boyd wrote:
>>
>>> On my highest performance requiring computers, /var/log, /var/tmp,
>>> /var/run, and /var/lib are symlinks to /tmp, which is a linux tmpfs.
>>> Yes indeed, that does mean that the logs are wiped on reboot.  It was
>>> either that or no logs though.
>> syslogd has the ability to log to other systems remotely.
>>
>> Volatile logs are little better than no logs at all.
> 
> It was a bit tounge in cheek as the system is really an embedded
> system.  Optimally I would keep logs the traditional way, but so far
> writes too compact flash have been disruptive at times.

Uh .... yeah, when you get a finite number of write cycles, I would have
to consider logging to a CF device to be a Bad Idea.


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