Re: SMP: logging

From: Kinkie <gkinkie_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:39:54 +0100

> The logging daemon does not make log rotation problem go away. You still
> need to implement log rotation. It just becomes slightly easier to do so.
>
> The O_APPEND solution, if it works, does not have race conditions among
> workers writing together to the same file. Or, more precisely, we trust
> the file system layer to handle those race conditions.

You have me convinced. Just raising the issue as I was afraid it would
go under the radar.

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    /kinkie
Received on Tue Feb 23 2010 - 16:40:02 MST

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