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Migrate from ramlog to disk


wurmfood

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Is there an accepted procedure for moving from using ramlog to logging to disk? I've looked but everything I can find is about setting up ramlog.

 

I assume it's more complicated than just creating a partition (or ZFS dataset) and mounting it /var/log, disabling ramlog, and rebooting.

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Well, for anyone else interested in trying this, here's the basic order I did:

  • stop armbian-ramlog
  • disable armbian-ramlog
  • create a zfs dataset and mount it at /var/log
  • cp -ar everything from /var/log.hdd to the new /var/log
  • modify /etc/logrotate to disable compression (since the dataset is already using compression)
  • modify /etc/default/armbian-ramlog to disable it there as well
  • modify /etc/default/armbian-zram-config to adjust for new numbers (I have ZRAM_PERCENTAGE and MEM_LIMIT_PERCENTAGE at 15).
  • reboot
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Sorry, the line about disabling was just to make sure you disable the armbian-zram-config service by setting ENABLED to false.

 

As a warning, though, I found some problems with this if you log to a zfs share. It seems you have to make sure zfs gets loaded before the logging starts up, otherwise you can get a kernel panic on occasion. I didn't really dig into how to fix this, so I just log and swap to a usb drive instead now.

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5 hours ago, wurmfood said:

Sorry, the line about disabling was just to make sure you disable the armbian-zram-config service by setting ENABLED to false.

 

As a warning, though, I found some problems with this if you log to a zfs share. It seems you have to make sure zfs gets loaded before the logging starts up, otherwise you can get a kernel panic on occasion. I didn't really dig into how to fix this, so I just log and swap to a usb drive instead now.

Thank you for clarifying and pointing that out.
Logging to a USB drive as a swap seems like a neat workaround.
It would be better though, if we could work out how to avoid the kernel panics without having to change when zfs mounts.

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