Re: systemd's journal

[Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@yahoo.co.uk>]

previously on this list Helmut Grohne contributed:

> So for the time being (i.e. until all of my systems and recovery systems
> are converted to systemd), I do see a slight[2] disadvantage

> It may take even longer until all initramfs will use
> systemd (and I do want to read logs from the initramfs if all I can
> mount is the /var/log).

It's just occurred to me that the binary format may not work with append
only logging?

Also recovering those logs from a possibly intentionally
uncompletely wiped disk would be much harder especially on an ext3/ext4
filesystem where carving is required when otherwise you could image or
ddrescue in case of hardware failure and use grep.

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'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work
together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a
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