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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 23, 2011 21:50 UTC (Wed) by jd (guest, #26381)
In reply to: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement by quotemstr
Parent article: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

If the syslog files are in a fully logging filesystem, every version is retained, allowing you to recover the missing data without needing any specialist anythings.


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The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

Posted Nov 23, 2011 23:34 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

even with today's disk sizes, nobody runs a fully logging filesystem. The inability to overwrite data will fill any disk up very quickly.

a 'logging filesystem' will give you a few older versions, depending on settings, but hardly every older version.

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