'Twas brillig, and Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek at 29/11/12 11:48 did gyre and gimble: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:37:26AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> So a couple complaints/queries are beginning trickling in regarding >> journal space requirements. >> >> A user was complaining that rotated journals were taking up too much >> room and they could be compressed down etc. I did explain that a rotated >> journal is really any different to the current journal other than it can >> be sealed, but I do fear he has some kind of point regarding long term >> storage. >> >> Should there be some kind of journal archiver system that will run xz -9 >> on older journals? Is this something that's being planned or is it left >> as an exercise for the reader to implement such long term >> storage/archiving systems? > > systemd-journal-remote can be used (when merged) to rewrite journal > files, so the tools are mostly there. Nevertheless, the data in > .journal files should already be compressed with XZ (if enabled), so I > doubt that that would gain much. Do you have some statistics about > the gains from the additional external XZ compression?
Hmmm, I wonder if I've missed something obvious in my build then. I just took a cleanly rotated journal of 18M in size and it compressed down to 4M... might be time to look at the build requires :D Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
