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Systemd wants to expand to include a sudo replacement (outpost.fosspost.org)

submitted 6 months ago by starman to c/linux

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Is journald still binary? That alone made me turn away.

Yes, unreadable with a text editor. Meaning that if you have a computer problem and journald or systemd is broken you have can't consult the log files, unless you did install rsyslog or sometimes before that. Meanwhile by default journald will eat a few GBs of disk space soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Compared to this what is the advantage of binary form? I thought log files being text was a no brainer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Storage efficiency, faster queries, more metadata, unified format, etc. If your host breaks, you can download the journals and open then elsewhere. Also, there is nothing stopping you from configuring it to output to a file.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Open them elsewhere is also true for text files I guess.