Given how useful the log file is, the server probably shouldn't default to erasing it. (This comes up in trainings a lot, that trivial operator errors can erase arbitrarily much useful historical information.) Could the server either default to logappend or try to rotate an existing log file on startup?
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SERVER-4109 logappend should be the default
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SERVER-4797 automatically rotate mongo logs on a schedule or size threshold
- Closed