On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:24:14AM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote: > On 07/15/2013 07:25 PM, 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. > > > > > FWIW, the 'file' utility does not have the magic to recognize > systemd journal files---it just sees them as generic 'data'. I filed > a bugzilla report and proposed fix: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985072 It's been fixed upstream a while ago in http://bugs.gw.com/view.php?id=258. Zbyszek -- they are not broken. they are refucktored -- alxchk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel