On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:10:54 -0400, Carl Friedberg wrote:
>Disk log size is less of a concern now than in the past. Today, you can buy
>disk storage at prices that make me cry ($180 for a 13GB EIDE drive; $1,500
>for a 10,000 rpm 18GB UW Scsi StorageWorks (Compaq/DEC) brick). I remember
>when disk storage was measured in megabytes, and 10MB was considered a big
>disk (that was the mid 1980's, in case any of you youngster's weren't born
>yet). So, let's try to extrapolate a little bit: we have very big drives and
>very fast processors, and very scary security problems. Large logs are a
>solution, not a problem, IMHO.
On the other hand, sometimes you just want to peak at a fifo. As long as the
design allows for logging classes of messages (and regex to get rid of those
ones that are just annoying) we can have the best of both worlds.
I would also like to add here that fifo's are wonderfull things for
Write Once Read Many which is immutable.
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