Re: WORM file system for logging

[David Collier-Brown <davecb () canada sun com>]

Andreas Siegert wrote:
> I am desperately looking for a WORM file system for logging purposes.
> I want to be able to write to a WORM drive in sort of real time from syslog.
> If that is not possible, I'd at leat would like to be able to copy the
> syslog
> file once a day to it and have a reasonable method of retrieving the
> individual
> files.

        Siemens have a product called FMWORM (File Management on a WORM),
        which sits a worm drive on your scsi and has the machine
        export it as a writable NFS filesystem.  

        It does have overheads, so I've only used it in large-scale
        imaging systems (in the US).

--dave
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