On 22/11/17 14:22, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
Aldemir Akpinar writes:
Could you elaborate why are you comparing a relational database
system where its files must be binary with a logging system where its
files doesn't need to binary?
You make it sound is if binary files were some sort of horror that
requires special justification. Please argue the point. Does a text
format justify x% performance loss? y% increase in line count or code
complexity? Pick x/y.
Arnt
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My understanding of why text files are better for important system logs
is this:-
When your server goes down big-style and you get all sorts of file
corruption you stand a very good chance of working out what happened
even if your text format log file is a bit mangled.
If your binary format log file is mangled life is considerably more
difficult - ask those that look after Microsoft Servers. I did, 'that's
as bad as Windows!' he said.
DaveT
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