Startup & systemd - a personal view

No, that is the core of how it works, I guess you could use a really long sync interval eg daily, monthly etc but then if users install a package from apt-get and there is a powercut or the plug is pulled accidentally, it may fail to reboot properly as the newly created logfiles will not be there. By syncing hourly, as long as power isn’t interrupted within 1 hour max, the new logs and folders will be persisted, as they will at a controlled reboot also. The persistence to disc IS the advantage of using log2ram.

I’m with the others that this is a bad idea IMO. This is the coding and development equivalent of poking your eyes out and sticking you fingers in your ears.

It’s only a few MB every hour, it will not take up space, it will not wear the card and it will not take much resource. But it will provide enormous amount of help towards debugging and development.

Cast you mind back to the issues with rfm2pi/emonpi’s locking out (rfm’s needing re-initialising) and then all the issues with emonhub interfacer threading and emoncms mqtt that could have been fixed so much sooner if we had more logs available sooner.

So many users just instinctively reboot.

This thread (Reboot Required Every 20 Days Or So To Restore Logging - #31 by TrystanLea) is a year old and we cannot help because we have no info, each time a user reboots and then asks what could it have been, we have to guess rather than inspect the logs and give some proper answers.