Log files are awful, log rotation is even worse. Logs are a continuous, persistent stream of messages that sometimes gets expunged when too old. Log files try t

Log files are awful, log rotation is even worse. Logs are a continuous, persistent stream of messages that sometimes gets expunged when too old. Log files try to flatten and serialize them, but the coordination and management of them is a hassle. An FS like Reiser where each log entry is a file arranged in directory trees by minute, hour, day, month, and year, or a sqlite database would make more sense than spewing blindly into a giant text file and praying that it works when another process comes along and moves things around underneath a running program.