From anti-systemd to pro-systemd in the shortest time

Posted Jan 31, 2014 23:53 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: From anti-systemd to pro-systemd in the shortest time by dlang
Parent article: This week in "As the Technical Committee Turns"

he wouldn't declare it mandatory and make it so hard for long-term successful usage patterns to continue.

The systemd/journald combination does have its good sides, including things that the traditional logging infrastructure simply does not do (like forwarding stderr output from services to the journal, or making recent log entries available with service status output). It is difficult to foresee every single use case for a piece of software like systemd that has so many. We know that the systemd people aren't interested in portability patches, but that doesn't imply that they generally aren't interested in suggestions for features they didn't happen to think of by themselves.

Also, possibly there is a solution for the problem in question that doesn't involve LD_PRELOAD. The filesystem-namespace idea, for example, sounds reasonably like something systemd could support if it doesn't do so already. I'm pretty sure that, given a little time, this will be figured out.