[rsyslog] Development of failsafe disk based queue

[RB]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 06:57, Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com> wrote:
> going back to the higher layer: do you say that immediate power failure
> is a case that you consider needed to be addressed in an enterprise
> logging system?
>
> Anybody else with an opinion?

Yes, I have an opinion: no.  Enterprise-grade applications need to
make the best effort they can to be fault-tolerant and reliable, but
we're following an exponential curve - at some point, you _have_ to
give over to the hardware and OS engineers to do their job properly.
Don't reinvent the hammer & chisel to reinvent the wheel - software
can _never_ account for all hardware failures and should never be
expected to do so.


RB