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From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Fifolog - a circular file for embedded systems
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>
> On NanoBSD and similar systems running on flash devices, logfiles
> are a problem due to the write-wear on the flash devices.

[ ... ]

> The complete fifolog tools sources:
>
> 	http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/fifolog.tgz
>
> The manual page is included below.
>
> Comments, code reviews and opinions on the suitability of this for
> inclusion in FreeBSDs base system are most welcome.

I think this would be a great addition, if nothing else than
to be available for NanoBSD.

-- 
DE