On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:25:28PM -0400, 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.
Just to add to that: the format has already been sucessfully extended twice: first to add XZ compression of fields, and second time to add forward sealing.
Zbyszek