Henry B. Hotz wrote: > > On Jun 9, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Darren Reed wrote: > >> If there is any evolution of the log file format, it will >> be to use XML. XML and structured data have featured >> heavily in discussions about advancing syslog and the >> benefits are clear: data gets typed. If the protocol >> data is formatted this way then there is little sense >> in writing it out in a binary format. > > I'm sure you're correct, but > > <curmudgeon> > Changing to an ASCII format that requires you to include the name of > each data field *twice* *in* *ASCII* around every single data item does > not seem like an advance in technology to me. > </curmudgeon> > > What about ASN1? If someone insists on XML, then you can still support > it. You get a much more compact format by default (30% vice 10X by my > guess).
Why does more compat matter ? ZFS supports compression in the file system so it should get compressed when written to disk. For taking it off the machine use gzip(1) or your favorite userland compression tool. -- Darren J Moffat
