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 -- they are not broken. they are refucktored -- alxchk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel