The journald design is horrible to the point of useless

Posted Nov 24, 2011 15:26 UTC (Thu) by rschroev (subscriber, #4164)
In reply to: The journald design is horrible to the point of useless by anselm
Parent article: That newfangled Journal thing

Presumably, yes.

Given the choice between

1) a binary format that presumably in the future will be well-defined, and which can be analyzed using a perl program that will run almost anywhere
2) a text format that can be read anywhere without if's and but's

then my choice for something as essential as log files will always be 2. Especially because all perceived or real shortcomings of the current solution can be implemented in a text format just as well.

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The journald design is horrible to the point of useless

Posted Nov 24, 2011 15:56 UTC (Thu) by anselm (subscriber, #2796) [Link] (1 responses)

Especially because all perceived or real shortcomings of the current solution can be implemented in a text format just as well.

Now that's a premise that I would by no means consider adequately established.

That's quite trivial...

Posted Nov 24, 2011 17:03 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

You can convert any binary format to text format using hexdump.

Not sure it'll satisfy the Unix purists, though.