Bug 531030

Summary:	log file sized increased by "compression"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper>
Component:	libvirt	Assignee:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	berrange, clalance, crobinso, itamar, jforbes, markmc, veillard, virt-maint
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Description Ulrich Drepper 2009-10-26 15:20:55 UTC

Description of problem:
Many log files libvirt creates in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/ have no content.  Still libvirt (or its helpers) "compress" them.  The result are nonzero-sized files.  Just don't do this, test for empty files first.  This will also prevent triggering other bugs (less, for instance, currently has problems showing such files).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.6.2-18

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run domain without any action for a few days
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Actual results:
compress empty files

Expected results:
leave empty files alone

Additional info:

Comment 1 Cole Robinson 2009-10-26 15:30:07 UTC

FYI this is already fixed upstream:

http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commit;h=b03fe2d0aefb57a096a102bf23375f0a167ca189

Comment 2 Daniel Berrangé 2009-10-26 19:22:07 UTC

Switching to POST as per Cole's comment.

Comment 3 Mark McLoughlin 2009-10-29 17:27:41 UTC

Worth fixing for Fedora 12, but probably not worth the effort for Fedora 11.

Building now:

* Thu Oct 29 2009 Mark McLoughlin <markmc> - 0.7.1-15
- Avoid compressing small log files (#531030)

Will request tagging later

Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2009-10-30 15:46:01 UTC

tag request: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/2927