Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/6] xenconsoled: rotating log file abstration

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 11:17:07AM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> On 07/06/16 10:55, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 10:44:50AM +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
> >> On 06/06/16 16:59, Wei Liu wrote:
> >>> Wei Liu (6):
> >>>   xenconsoled: introduce log file abstraction
> >>>   xenconsoled: switch hypervisor log to use logfile abstraction
> >>>   xenconsoled: switch guest log to use logfile abstraction
> >>>   xenconsoled: delete two now unused functions
> >>>   xenconsoled: options to control log rotation
> >>>   xenconsoled: handle --log-backups 0 in logfile_rollover
> >>
> >> What not use syslog and/or logrotate?
> >>
> > 
> > It's cumbersome to setup per guest facility for syslog. We don't want
> > console log from different guests mix together in one file.
> > 
> > Logrorate runs periodically. It doesn't actively limit the disk space
> > consumed.
> > 
> > The combination of syslog and logrotate can't prevent a guest from
> > filling up Dom0 disk as far as I can tell. I'm happy to know if there is
> > some sort of simple configuration we can ship with open source Xen.
> 
> Ok. Found the other thread now.
> 
> We should just use virtlogd instead of re-inventing the wheel.
> 

As in importing that to our own tree (potentially a fork)? Provide
interfaces to let system administrator configure that (need to at least
check if it provides stable interfaces)?

Not to mention to use that we need to add dependency to some sort of RPC
library in our toolstack.

Wei.

> David

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