Re: [meta-oe 3/3] systemd: enable logging to disk instead of tmpfs

[Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>]

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Op 05-03-12 21:55, Otavio Salvador schreef:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 17:29, Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net>
> wrote:
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>> Op 05-03-12 19:12, Otavio Salvador schreef:
>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 14:37, Koen Kooi <koen@dominion.thruhere.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> +       # create dir for journal +       install -d 
>>>> ${D}${localstatedir}/log/journal
>>> 
>>> I'd prefer if journal could default to use a buffer or something
>>> similar instead of writting to disk as we ought to be careful about
>>> space in embedded devices, in general.
>> 
>> And that's why patch 1/3 enables xz compression :)
> 
> I understand however I think that write the log to the disk by default is
> wrong. We can do it by machine basis or other type of override by by
> default we ought to avoid writting to disk.

Right now it's logging to tmpfs, which takes up ram, which more scarce than
disk. You can easily remove /var/log/journal in ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_CMD to
make it log to tmpfs again.

regards,

Koen
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