[rsyslog] Development of failsafe disk based queue

[RB]

> 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?

Sync: not as long as it's optional.  Worrying about sector writes and
capacitors/battery-backed cache on the underlying drives: yes.  Unless
rsyslog starts writing to raw devices, it is my opinion that once it
reasonably hands the data off to the filesystem, it becomes a kernel
and/or hardware problem and unnecessarily complex for a userspace
application to govern.  I'm all for anything rsyslog can do to
encourage proper behavior (like calling sync()) without getting into
the kernel/hardware space.


RB