[Pacemaker] The effects of /var being full on failure detection

[Brett Delle Grazie]

Hi Ryan,

On 7 February 2011 17:24, Ryan Thomson <ryan at pet.ubc.ca> wrote:
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> We have /var mounted separately, but not /var/log. Interesting idea. Part of
> our /var problem was two fold: We had enabled debug logging and iptables
> logging to diagnose a previous problem and neglected to turn them off again
> after the diagnosis session which caused unusually high log volume, plus we
> never enabled logrotate for the firewall so it just grew and grew without
> being rotated out. Tough way to be reminded of improper configuration...

Sometimes learning things "the hard way" is necessary :)

Small word of caution about /var/log nested mount point - I haven't used this
in a long time. More modern distros that start everything at once might have
service dependency issues so YMMV.  i.e. test first.

>
> --Ryan
>

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Best Regards,

Brett Delle Grazie