On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:24:14AM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
On 07/15/2013 07:25 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 09:13:24AM +1000, Dan Fruehauf wrote:
Another question while we're at it - what happens if and when you decide to change your binary format for storing files for whatever reason? Is that when we understand that we should have been left with just text based files?
A stable, documented journal format is a prerequisite for this feature.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files/
That page outlines the plan for compatibility and for future extensions, and it seems reasonable to me.
FWIW, the 'file' utility does not have the magic to recognize systemd journal files---it just sees them as generic 'data'. I filed a bugzilla report and proposed fix:
It's been fixed upstream a while ago in http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=258.
Zbyszek