Using logging module to log into flash drive

[Carl Banks]

On Jun 9, 8:57 am, kretel <Krzysztof.Re... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to implement the following functionality:
> 1. log messages to the flash drive
> 2. if the flash drive is not available, switch handler to the
> BufferringHandler and log into buffer,
> 3. once the flash drive is plugged in and available store the logs
> from BufferHandler into that flash drive and switch the handler into
> RotateFileHandler.
>
> Which approach would you suggest to use while implementing this
> functionality? One that come into my mind is to have one process or
> thread to check periodically if the flashdrive is available, and have
> a flag that will indicate that we can store the logs into the flash
> drive. But I don't particularly like this approach.
> Would you do it different way?
> Any suggestions are appreciated.


I'd refactor the steps this way:

1. log messages to a buffer
2. periodically flush the buffer to the flash drive, if it's available

The "periodically" part could be accomplished with a thread or
scheduled delays, however suits your application.  It might not be a
final if you need to log messages promptly, but that's how I'd begin.


Carl Banks