On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:53:06PM -0600, Eric Smith wrote:
> But it's what people actually use in 99.9% of cases. 99.9% of the
> time I don't need the extra information in the binary journal. Making
> /var/log/messages unavailable by default has a huge down side.
We should probably refrain from hyperbole on either side. It has
1) a training/learning cost because the tools are different
2) an inconvenience when the tools aren't easily available
3) a rare real case where no _tools_ are available but the system is
partially live and you have no-off-system logging and you can't reboot
into a diagnostic tools environment or take the disk offline
4) lack of current tools for attempting to recover a possibly scrambled
file
5) early-adopter risk that the code is more fragile than expected and
has unknown serious corruption cases
Have I missed something?
I'd rather see a structured text format, but I understand that that's
computationally expensive. At least the binary format is a) simple and b)
documented. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/
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