diff --git a/selfdrive/loggerd/SConscript b/selfdrive/loggerd/SConscript
index b597406bac..1492d92f39 100644
--- a/selfdrive/loggerd/SConscript
+++ b/selfdrive/loggerd/SConscript
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ Import('env', 'arch', 'cereal', 'messaging', 'common', 'visionipc', 'gpucommon')
 
 
 logger_lib = env.Library('logger', ["logger.cc"])
-src = ['loggerd.cc']
 libs = [logger_lib, 'zmq', 'capnp', 'kj', 'z',
         'avformat', 'avcodec', 'swscale', 'avutil',
         'yuv', 'bz2', 'OpenCL', common, cereal, messaging, visionipc]
 
+src = ['loggerd.cc']
 if arch in ["aarch64", "larch64"]:
   src += ['omx_encoder.cc']
   libs += ['OmxCore', 'gsl', 'CB'] + gpucommon
diff --git a/selfdrive/loggerd/logger.cc b/selfdrive/loggerd/logger.cc
index 4ac496d2d3..a4e354263a 100644
--- a/selfdrive/loggerd/logger.cc
+++ b/selfdrive/loggerd/logger.cc
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 #include <assert.h>
 #include <time.h>
 #include <errno.h>
-
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 
@@ -18,14 +17,17 @@
 #ifdef QCOM
 #include <cutils/properties.h>
 #endif
-#include "messaging.hpp"
 
 #include "common/swaglog.h"
 #include "common/params.h"
 #include "common/util.h"
 #include "common/version.h"
+#include "messaging.hpp"
 #include "logger.h"
 
+
+// ***** logging helpers *****
+
 void append_property(const char* key, const char* value, void *cookie) {
   std::vector<std::pair<std::string, std::string> > *properties =
     (std::vector<std::pair<std::string, std::string> > *)cookie;
@@ -33,6 +35,24 @@ void append_property(const char* key, const char* value, void *cookie) {
   properties->push_back(std::make_pair(std::string(key), std::string(value)));
 }
 
+static int mkpath(char* file_path) {
+  assert(file_path && *file_path);
+  char* p;
+  for (p=strchr(file_path+1, '/'); p; p=strchr(p+1, '/')) {
+    *p = '\0';
+    if (mkdir(file_path, 0777)==-1) {
+      if (errno != EEXIST) {
+        *p = '/';
+        return -1;
+      }
+    }
+    *p = '/';
+  }
+  return 0;
+}
+
+// ***** log metadata *****
+
 void log_init_data(LoggerState *s) {
   MessageBuilder msg;
   auto init = msg.initEvent().initInitData();
@@ -114,25 +134,11 @@ static void log_sentinel(LoggerState *s, cereal::Sentinel::SentinelType type) {
   logger_log(s, bytes.begin(), bytes.size(), true);
 }
 
-static int mkpath(char* file_path) {
-  assert(file_path && *file_path);
-  char* p;
-  for (p=strchr(file_path+1, '/'); p; p=strchr(p+1, '/')) {
-    *p = '\0';
-    if (mkdir(file_path, 0777)==-1) {
-      if (errno != EEXIST) {
-        *p = '/';
-        return -1;
-      }
-    }
-    *p = '/';
-  }
-  return 0;
-}
+// ***** logging functions *****
 
 void logger_init(LoggerState *s, const char* log_name, bool has_qlog) {
   memset(s, 0, sizeof(*s));
- 
+
   umask(0);
 
   pthread_mutex_init(&s->lock, NULL);
@@ -191,11 +197,11 @@ static LoggerHandle* logger_open(LoggerState *s, const char* root_path) {
     h->bz_qlog = BZ2_bzWriteOpen(&bzerror, h->qlog_file, 9, 0, 30);
     if (bzerror != BZ_OK) goto fail;
   }
-  
+
   pthread_mutex_init(&h->lock, NULL);
   h->refcnt++;
-  log_init_data(s);
   return h;
+
 fail:
   LOGE("logger failed to open files");
   if (h->bz_file) {
@@ -246,6 +252,8 @@ int logger_next(LoggerState *s, const char* root_path,
 
   pthread_mutex_unlock(&s->lock);
 
+  // write beggining of log metadata
+  log_init_data(s);
   log_sentinel(s, is_start_of_route ? cereal::Sentinel::SentinelType::START_OF_ROUTE : cereal::Sentinel::SentinelType::START_OF_SEGMENT);
   return 0;
 }
diff --git a/selfdrive/loggerd/loggerd.cc b/selfdrive/loggerd/loggerd.cc
index c8348e3e2a..f595b0f547 100644
--- a/selfdrive/loggerd/loggerd.cc
+++ b/selfdrive/loggerd/loggerd.cc
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 #include <sys/resource.h>
 
 #include <string>
-
 #include <thread>
 #include <mutex>
 #include <condition_variable>
@@ -18,6 +17,7 @@
 #include <random>
 
 #include <ftw.h>
+
 #include "common/timing.h"
 #include "common/params.h"
 #include "common/swaglog.h"
@@ -101,14 +101,6 @@ namespace {
 
 constexpr int SEGMENT_LENGTH = 60;
 
-double randrange(double a, double b) __attribute__((unused));
-double randrange(double a, double b) {
-  static std::mt19937 gen(millis_since_boot());
-
-  std::uniform_real_distribution<> dist(a, b);
-  return dist(gen);
-}
-
 ExitHandler do_exit;
 
 class RotateState {
diff --git a/selfdrive/manager.py b/selfdrive/manager.py
index 80d7c388a9..fc058705a3 100755
--- a/selfdrive/manager.py
+++ b/selfdrive/manager.py
@@ -146,7 +146,6 @@ import cereal.messaging as messaging
 
 from common.params import Params
 from selfdrive.registration import register
-from selfdrive.loggerd.config import ROOT
 from selfdrive.launcher import launcher
 
 
@@ -421,12 +420,6 @@ def manager_init():
   crash.bind_user(id=dongle_id)
   crash.bind_extra(version=version, dirty=dirty, is_eon=True)
 
-  os.umask(0)
-  try:
-    os.mkdir(ROOT, 0o777)
-  except OSError:
-    pass
-
   # ensure shared libraries are readable by apks
   if EON:
     os.chmod(BASEDIR, 0o755)