[Sheepdog] [PATCH v2] logger: rotate log by size, default is 500MB

MORITA Kazutaka morita.kazutaka at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 23:23:44 CEST 2012


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org> wrote:
> Stupid question, but why is sheepdog in the business of handling these
> low-level logfile details instead of leaving it to (r)syslogd?

We run many sheep daemons on one machine when the machine has
many disks or we want to emulate many nodes for developing.  In
that case, it is difficult to read each daemon's log from one
syslog file.

Thanks,

Kazutaka



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