On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Carson Gaspar wrote: >> It's not safe to jump to this conclusion. Disk drivers that support FMA >> won't log error messages to /var/adm/messages. As more support for I/O >> FMA shows up, you won't see random spew in the messages file any more. > > <mode="large financial institution paying support customer"> > That is a Very Bad Idea. Please convey this to whoever thinks that > they're "helping" by not sysloging I/O errors. If this shows up in > Solaris 11, we will Not Be Amused. Lack of off-box error logging will > directly cause loss of revenue. > </mode>
I am glad to hear that your large financial institution (Bear Stearns?) is contributing to the OpenSolaris project. :-) Today's systems are very complex and may contain many tens of disks. Syslog is a bottleneck and often logs to local files, which grow very large, and hinder system performance while many log messages are being reported. If syslog is to a remote host, then the network is also impacted. If a device (or several inter-related devices) is/are experiencing problems, it seems best to isolate and diagnose it, with one intelligent notification rather than spewing hundreds of thousands of low-level error messages to a system logger. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
