[rsyslog] Development of failsafe disk based queue

[david at lang.hm]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, RB wrote:

>> this is already the second version of this systems we develop. Not being
>> able to do error analysis beacause of missing log data was one of the
>> big problems including filesystem crashes. Having all logs and being
>> able to proof the cause also helps a lot afterwards not only for
>> creating a workaround for the incident but also to proof that the
>> Service Level Agreement wasn't violated.
>
> Somewhat randomly selecting one to respond to - you guys generated a
> lot of chatter.
>
> My view as both a software and hardware engineer on this is simple:
> never try to solve a hardware problem with a software solution.  You
> will never win.  It is possible to account for many edge cases, but no
> matter how paranoid you may be, hardware always trumps software - it
> has the last word, regardless of what you may try to do.

I'm not understanding the point you are trying to make.

are you saying that it's a bad idea to try and have an option to do the 
syncing we are talking about for the queue?

David Lang