logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default

P J P pj.pandit at yahoo.co.in
Fri Jun 28 05:23:44 UTC 2013


   Hello Lennart, Colin,

----- Original Message -----
> From: Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>
> Subject: Re: logrotate(8) and copytruncate as default
> 
> The systemd-journald takes care of all of: receiving messages, writing
> them to storage, and rotating the storage.
>
> We do synchronous rotation before each write. i.e. the moment we append
> to a file we check if the write would cause the disk usage to be out of
> limits, and then do the rotation right away.

   I see.  While doing this rotation, I guess systemd uses flock(2) or similar
mechanism to pause writing to a log file, move/rename or copy-truncate that
file and continue writes again?

> You can configure how much disk space journald should take up at max,
> and how much you want to remain free.
> 
> You can also configure a time limit, to enforce that everything older
> than a certain time is always cleaned up (though this is really
> something for weird data retention policy setups, normal users should
> not need it, disk space is a much more useful limiter).

   Ah, cool! That's interesting. Thanks so much for this insight.

Thank you!

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   -Prasad
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