Log rotation, a normal thing on Linux systems, keeps any particular log file from becoming too large, yet ensures that sufficient details on system activities are still available for proper system ...
If you really want to see what's happening beneath the hood of your Linux distribution, you need to use log files. Log files. They’re there for a reason — to keep track of what goes on behind the ...
I was about to make that point as well. There are an awful lot of production systems using JFFS2 (and a much smaller number using YAFFS(2), also log-structured). OK, it's a rubbish _disk_ filesystem ...