Re: Where should rrd files generated by a program be stored ?
sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:07:59AM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> > Currently, mailgraph stores it's graphs and his rrd files under
> > /var/cache/mailgraph, but after this thread and a discussion with
> > Alexander Reelsen on IRC I decided to move the rrd files to
> > /var/lib/mailgraph. The graphs will stay in /var/cache/mailgraph.
>
> which i'd agree is the right thinking. the rrd's can't be reliably
> regenerated thanks to logrotation (your logs will only go so far back
> and even then it's a pita to get all of that loaded back into the rrd, i
> had to do just that a couple weeks ago) the graphs (png images),
> however, can be quickly regenerated from the rrd file, so it makes sense
> to put them in /var/cache.
Regarding storing the graphs in /var/cache, I disagree. For files in
/var/cache, the FHS mandates:
| The application must always be able to recover from manual deletion of
| these files (generally because of a disk space shortage).
The problem is that the graphs probably are *not* automatically
re-generated if they are missing when a user requests them via the web
server. So, the graphs would probably best stored in /var/lib, too.
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