On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 01:50:59AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 17.10.12 18:02, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > I'd like to see the current binary format officially documented > > upstream, and a promise not maintain backwards compatibility forever > > (and some forwards compat too if possible). > > The format is documented now: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files > > And it's included in the stability promise: > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfacePortabilityAndStabilityChart Thanks for doing this. In case it's not clear already, libguestfs will use the file format (or more likely the C API) to read journal files out of guests, so we'll definitely encounter the host journal version != guest journal version case in future. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
