From: Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] Re: feature request: log rotation
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:34:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A16FB9A4-3BE9-4335-8889-12B1F51B69DA@stanleylieber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ft1wobop.fsf@cmarib.ramside>
On February 15, 2021 11:53:42 PM EST, magma698hfsp273p9f@icebubble.org wrote:
>Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com> writes:
>
>> a machine sitting still should not fill up its own disk. let's design
>> a sane default.
>
>Isn't that the whole idea behind the WORM filesystem paradigm? Never
>delete anything, just add more storage. Right?
>
i have seen many worms filled without human intervention. that's what i'd like to prevent.
i can roll my own log rotation, but why not provide a sensible default?
note: not all systems have a worm partition or are running dumps. the worm actually makes the problem worse.
sl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-16 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 15:36 [9front] " Stanley Lieber
2021-02-16 4:53 ` [9front] " magma698hfsp273p9f
2021-02-16 23:34 ` Stanley Lieber [this message]
2021-02-17 7:45 ` sirjofri
2021-02-17 14:59 ` Stanley Lieber
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