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Re:Operating Systems Without Systemd by happymellon on Saturday May 02, 2020 @01:24PM (#23053309)
What I hate is not that it logs to a journal log, it is that the binary db used by journald is non-standard and undocumented.

This means that a dead system can potentially not be read by a live system, as the journal can have undocumented breaking changes.

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Re:Operating Systems Without Systemd by shawnz on Saturday May 02, 2020 @07:25PM (#23055692)
It is documented, but the documentation is unfortunately not authoritative: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-fi...

Also, they couldn't make breaking changes to the format or it would prevent people from reading their own old log files after upgrades

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Re:Operating Systems Without Systemd by happymellon on Saturday May 09, 2020 @11:54AM (#23125750)
Fuck, not this shit again.

If I get some 3rd party documentation, that says it may or may not be correct, and the implementation is literally the only authorative documentation then it isn't actually documented.

> they couldn't make breaking changes to the format or it would prevent people from reading their own old log files after upgrades

This is the point. They do not guarantee that you can.

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