Framing with FEC.

Posted Nov 21, 2011 19:43 UTC (Mon) by ejr (subscriber, #51652)
In reply to: Thank you... by cmccabe
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

Indeed. A simple framing including some forward error correction code around some well-known, extensible encoding (maybe text, maybe protocol buffers, dunno) could prove even more resilient to failures than the plain-text logs. Same can be said for the text files used by dpkg, etc. VMS FTW?