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Title: Wishlist - logfile location
Post by: stoatwblr on December 15, 2011, 11:26:04 PM

It'd be nice to be able to define the location of logfiles and known*.met  in amule.conf

This would allow optimisation of placement into/off of SSD/ramdisk (or /var/log)

Title: Re: Wishlist - logfile location
Post by: Vollstrecker on December 16, 2011, 01:26:54 AM

You already can move the complete homedir to a location where you have write access to. This includes logfile and everything else in your ~/.amule

Title: Re: Wishlist - logfile location
Post by: stoatwblr on December 19, 2011, 10:58:36 AM

Yes you can, but you can't separate stuff which benefits from (or is harmful to) SSDs

In particular: logfiles are really bad for SSDs - writing one line at a time when the device has to erase in 128kb blocks for any write can result in premature device failure.

Title: Re: Wishlist - logfile location
Post by: Vollstrecker on December 19, 2011, 03:04:42 PM

Symlinks?

Title: Re: Wishlist - logfile location
Post by: stoatwblr on December 19, 2011, 09:21:32 PM

Don't work. They get trashed every time the program is restarted.

Title: Re: Wishlist - logfile location
Post by: Stu Redman on December 19, 2011, 09:47:59 PM

Quote from: stoatwblr on December 19, 2011, 10:58:36 AM

writing one line at a time when the device has to erase in 128kb blocks for any write can result in premature device failure.

That's not how a SSD works.
Anyway, if you are afraid of using it, why buy it in the first place? Your SSD will probably obsolete long before it gets broken.

Title: Re: Wishlist - logfile location
Post by: myth on December 20, 2011, 07:37:31 PM

Exactly my opinion!

http://www.dansdata.com/flashswap.htm