Re: dedicated logging devices

From: Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 06:44:19 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 12:45:51PM +0200, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
>
> Is it reasonable to use the 50 bytes of /dev/nvram for logging or is it just
> too small?

Far, far, far, far, far too small. You need tens of kB minimum to record
a single filesystem transaction for a complex operation such as a file
delete.

Cheers,
 Stephen

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