28 Jan
2007
28 Jan
'07
23:52
"Defensive code" might mean "do not start a service if you can not log to the specified logfile" as well. So: "depends"
Defensive code always means: check for errors, take action as needed (e.g. cleanup), and message the caller/user/system. The let-it-explode philosophy would work only if every failure were clean.
Right - all changes during use of the unionfs overlay were written to tmpfs instead of /var/log on harddisk. Cute, nor? :)
Cute - and more complex than our workaround. But thanks for the tip! Nice to know.
M