[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv3] Add sync timer to journal server

[Oleksii Shevchuk]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 07:53:45AM +0200, Oleksii Shevchuk wrote:
> > > > +        if (! (f->writable && f->fd >= 0))
> > > > +                return -1;
> > > -1 means EPERM. Something different is needed.
> > 
> > EINVAL/EBUSY/EFAULT ?
> At least if !f->writable then the return code should be 0.

At last variant of patch header is checked first for STATE_ONLINE.
I think the state ro+ONLINE is incorrect, is it?

> I think that this is the same thing as with fixed times: if you set
> the interval to 100000 msgs, you get a random sync every few days,
> which is useless. If you set it low, than you limit the throughput.
> I think that the msg-based limit doesn't make much sense.

I think there should be the way to set syncing with lowest possible
timeouts for debugging random hangs or so. If you think that this
approach useless, I can remove msg counter at all