FWIW, journald's file format is one case where upon reading the spec I said it needs to be taken behind the barn and shot as a mercy. And no, it had nothing to

FWIW, journald's file format is one case where upon reading the spec I said it needs to be taken behind the barn and shot as a mercy. And no, it had nothing to do with being binary, and everything to do with badly mixing "durable system log" and "quick retrieval" aspects in wrong order.