I think the main point of the OP was that he logs to a NAS device, so I do not see way to write to it without going through a network share.
Other than that, I agree to your statement. Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan T DeKok > Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:40 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Enabling > $ActionFileEnableSynccausedmassiveincreaseinwrite volume (bytes/sec) to > NAS -cansomeone helpshed light? > > Rainer Gerhards wrote: > > So my conclusion really is that you need to look at the NFS layer. > > Logs should NEVER be written to an NFS mount. > > David gave a good explanation as to why. But the above prohibition > should be made clear in the docs, if it isn't already. > > If the NFS server goes away, then the write transaction rate will go > to zero. This likely isn't what people want from a syslog server. > > There is already a way to get syslog data from one system to another: > the syslog protocol. Using NFS as a replacement for syslog is wrong on > many levels. > > Alan DeKok. > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
