On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
Heya,
I have now found the time to document the journal file format:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files
Comments welcome!
(Oh, and it's in the fdo wiki, so if you see a typo or
On Tue, 23.10.12 15:25, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com) wrote:
But what I couldn't find in any of these documents (maybe there is
in another one), is a justification of the current technical (i.e.
implementation) decisions. Mainly:
That's a valid question to raise.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
On Tue, 23.10.12 15:25, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com)
wrote:
Why did you resort to implementing a new database format, and
didn't choose an existing embedded library like BerkeleyDB,
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
Heya,
I have now found the time to document the journal file format:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files
Comments welcome!
(Replying directly to this as I want to start another
On Tue, 23.10.12 18:48, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com) wrote:
- We needed something with in-line compression, and where we can add
stuff like FSS to
Ok. I agree that there are very few libraries that fit here. All I
can think of making into here would be
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
On Tue, 23.10.12 18:48, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com)
wrote:
- We needed something with in-line compression, and where we can add
stuff like FSS to
Ok. I agree that there are very
On Tue, 23.10.12 19:11, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com) wrote:
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
Heya,
I have now found the time to document the journal file format:
On Tue, 23.10.12 20:13, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com) wrote:
In the journal file format indexing field objects that are only
referenced once is practically free, as instead of storing an offset to
the bsearch object we use for indexing we just store the offset of the
On Tue, 23.10.12 23:43, Alexander E. Patrakov (patra...@gmail.com) wrote:
2012/10/21 Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net:
Heya,
I have now found the time to document the journal file format:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files
Comments welcome!
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
But note that the price you pay for interleaving files on display grows
with the more you split things up (O(n) being n number of files to
interleave), hence we are a bit conservative here, we don't want to push
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
On Tue, 23.10.12 20:13, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com)
wrote:
The other thing is simply that the stuff is really integrated with each
other. The journal sources are small because we reuse a
On Tue, 23.10.12 22:02, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com) wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
But note that the price you pay for interleaving files on display grows
with the more you split things up (O(n) being n number
On Tue, 23.10.12 22:14, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com) wrote:
Why? Why would anybody want to use the journal but not systemd? People
who have issues with the latter usually are not rational about these
things, and probably have a more philosophical/religious issue with
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Lennart Poettering
lenn...@poettering.net wrote:
On Tue, 23.10.12 22:02, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com)
wrote:
And the way I see benefiting from systemd would be creating
containers (like LXC) for each such process.
Our story
On Tue, 23.10.12 22:27, Ciprian Dorin Craciun (ciprian.crac...@gmail.com) wrote:
In one word: a way to partition entries into multiple log files,
by setting this special field.
As mentioned we have SplitMode= for this, but it is strictly for UIDs
only, since we only need this for
On 10/23/2012 06:40 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
The journal currently cannot do this for you, but what it already can is
split up the journal per-user. This is done by default only for login
users, (i.e. actual human users), but with the SplitMode= setting in
journald.conf can be enabled for
On Tue, 23.10.12 20:52, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson (johan...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 10/23/2012 06:40 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
The journal currently cannot do this for you, but what it already can is
split up the journal per-user. This is done by default only for login
users, (i.e. actual human
On 10/23/2012 09:19 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
Related to the tool you are suggesting I think a tool to merge split off
files might be very useful too, to counter the scalability issues of
interleaving too many separate files on display.
Yeah an extension to the journalctl and probably users
Heya,
I have now found the time to document the journal file format:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/journal-files
Comments welcome!
(Oh, and it's in the fdo wiki, so if you see a typo or so, go ahead and
fix it!)
Lennart
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