On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:25:11AM -0700, les wrote:
Also one of the things we (linux folk) decry about most proprietary
packages is in fact the arbitrary encoding of information in proprietary
formats. Add in the fact that storage is relatively cheap today, and it
would seem that having all logs in text to simplify reading, access,
support and legacy storage would be most desirable. Additionally text
logs compress nicely for archival storage.
The binary format provides various benefits, such as
- faster
- easier to 'grep' (way more advanced stuff is available)
A text format is provided by running "journalctl". You can pipe this do
a file and have the exact same information. Additionally, you can still
run syslog and get everything like you have it as now.
IMO this addresses every concern, right?
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Regards,
Olav