Re: Running SE with log files linked to /dev/null

Posted in 1992

Jonathan Leffler — Mon, 26 Oct 92 22:54:09 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>From: uunet!jjolly.b24b.ingr.com!jjolly (Jack G. Jolly) >Subject: Running SE with log files linked to /dev/null >Date: 26 Oct 92 14:47:30 GMT >To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu >X-Informix-List-Id: <news.2007> >I have found that an SE db can be run with the transaction log file >symbolically linked to /dev/null to avoid it "growing without bound." >Anyone else doing this?? Any "bad things" that could happen?? Well, you obviously couldn't roll back any transactions, nor could you roll forward the database after a crash. Apart from that, no, I see no problems. But why bother with a transaction log if you're simply going to throw the info away? Yours, Jonathan Leffler (johnl@obelix.informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h>