Re: price to pay for nocow file bit?

[Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Am Samstag, 10. Januar 2015, 13:00:23 schrieben Sie:
> I have seen this setting before, but I thought, well, logs would be good to 
> keep. But for the SSD based laptop I will try volatile storage now. I will
> see whether I missed a longer history, but I reduced it before anyway to a
> 14 day maximum retention time already, cause systemd used 1,1 GiB of my
> root partition for logs while rsyslog + logrotate used much less[1]. And I
> have yet not seen the immediate benefit for me here on this laptop to
> justify using up that much resources just for logging. So for me its a
> useless waste of resources currently. (This may be different on a server or
> anywhere where logfiles matter more, but then, when I consider some of our
> server VMs with just 4 to 5 GiB VMDK file, journald on Debian in default
> settings could easily fill the remaining space on some of them. Which I
> would consider a regression.)

Okay, scratch that.

journald is adaptive to the remaining space on the disk AFAIK.

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