How to avoid log fragmentation?

Hi,

We have a project with N+1 components, each creating a log file in parallel.
On each boot the partition(NTFS) where the logs are created is checked with chkdsk /R.
These logs generate a lot of fragmentation as you can imagine, thus the chkdsk gets really slow.

What's the best method to avoid this fragmentation in your opinion?

TIA,

The best way would probably be to create a single, larger, log file, instead of multiple little ones.

Viggy

Thanks... Thought of that... but this would generate two issues:

1) logs which come from otherwise rather autonomous entities would all be entangled and would require filtering before they would be readable (this is minor issue- we can make grepping a habit :) )

2) we also have a Hypersonic database which writes it's data in a similar manner. And even though having just two files competing for clusters would statistically give a bit better fragmentation, the partition would still become rather fragmented over time...

How about logging to a dababase? This needn't be a server-based solution - you can use SQL server compact as an embedded database.

Darwen.