[sheepdog] [PATCH] lib: implement a mechanism for logging with standard syslog

[Hitoshi Mitake]

At Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:53:30 +0800,
Liu Yuan wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 06:43:29PM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > At Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:26:08 +0800,
> > Liu Yuan wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 06:24:11PM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> > > > Some users want sheepdog processes to write log to standard syslog
> > > > (e.g. /var/log/syslog), mainly for utilizing standard log rotation
> > > > policy of their systems.
> > > 
> > > Do we really need it? sheepdog logger supports log rotation.
> > 
> > Yes, some of our internal users want sheepdog to adopt standard syslog
> > policy. This would be important for reducing administration work.
> 
> I am still not convinced to accept your patch since log rotation is supported
> by current sheepdog logger. any more reasons?

Sorry, my description was bad. Some of our internal users want
sheepdog to adopt log management policy of their system. The policy
includes rotation, compression, expiration, etc (not only
rotation). If sheepdog adopts their policy (or configuration), they
can reduce cost of administration. Because they can have assumption
that sheepdog processes don't produce too much logs they don't aware.

Thanks,
Hitoshi