On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:10 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:02:30AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Maybe I'm unusual, but I rarely reboot my laptop cleanly. I'm not sure I'd > > want X weeks of logs to go away. > > > > Are there any sorts of mechanisms to do per-directory or per-file writeback > > caching, so that /var/log/ could be set to 'sync only every 15 minutes', > > or similar? > > Not that I can think of. Implementing it in rsyslog might be the easiest > option, though that would still leave apps that do their logging by > hand. Maybe we should just fix them all up to use syslog when possible. Maybe logrotate could copy the files from the tmpfs to disk on a semi-regular basis, rather than hack this into syslog directly? Would also mean that apps that have their own logging would work as expected as well. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
