[geeks] Choice of filesystem for /var

[Joshua Boyd]

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.

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Joshua D. Boyd
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