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What I hate is not that it logs to a journal log, it is that the binary db used by journald is non-standard and undocumented. This means that a dead system can
by happymellon 7y ago
What I hate is not that it logs to a journal log, it is that the binary db used by journald is non-standard and undocumented.
This means that a dead system can potentially not be read by a live system, as the journal can have undocumented breaking changes.
- shawnz 7y agoIt is documented, but the documentation is unfortunately not authoritative: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-fi... Also, they couldn't make breaking changes to the format or it would prevent people from reading their own old log files after upgrades
- happymellon 7y agoFuck, not this shit again. If I get some 3rd party documentation, that says it may or may not be correct, and the implementation is literally the only authorative documentation then it isn't actually documented. > they couldn't make breaking changes to the format or it would prevent people from reading their own old log files after upgrades This is the point. They do not guarantee that you can.