[geeks] Choice of filesystem for /var

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

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.

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