The Grumpy Editor's guide to surviving the systemd debate

> I don't quite understand why the binary blob DB isn't based on an already extant DB

The official answer to that can be found at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.systemd.devel....

I have read through the journal file format specification [1] and the code that implements it [2], and from what I can tell it looks reasonably straight-forward. I have no doubt bugs will be discovered. That is inevitable with any non-trivial code. But there's really no reason to believe that these bugs will go unfixed. It's not as if it's "new" code, anyway -- people have been using it now for years.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-...
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/plain/src/jou...