I mostly like systemd but journalctl/journald unequivocally sucks arse with passion. /rant They made binary format THAT DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING PROPER INDEXING

I mostly like systemd but journalctl/journald unequivocally sucks arse with passion. /rant They made binary format THAT DON'T HAVE ANY FUCKING PROPER INDEXING. It might have actual indexing, who the fuck knows, but it don't have any useful one They could literally just drop in SQLite there and now your entire's system's logs have power of being queried via SQL which would be amazing and easy to use with countless tools that can be used with SQLite but NO, (probably) Lennart wanted to have some fun writing shitty binary format coz of his chronic NIH. strace systemctl status 2>&1 |grep /var/log/journal |wc -l 71 It opens SEVENTY ONE FILES TO GET LOGS ABOUT ONE APPLICATION systemctl status tinc FOR WHICH IT HAS NO LOGS IN THE FIRST PLACE journalctl -a -e -n10 -u tinc |cat -- No entries -- (it's the same for app with logs btw.) I can literally grep a bunch of text files faster than it can look thru it's "efficient" binary logs. But hey if you waste RAM to cache every journal file on your machine in RAM instead of, dunno, actually useful stuff, those commands are fast... It's an abomination and affront to good engineering. Which is shame coz I like many of the other parts. /endrant