Re: Re: Systemd migration: opinion and questions

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> a) If the system crashes, partially corrupted in-the-crash text logs can
> be of at least some use after a reboot.  Binary journals, not so much.

Have you tested this, or found some other data to support this?  I
think that journalctl does parse truncated files.

>
> But syslog-ng lets me dump them without ever actually logging them, or
> route them to a different log file if I prefer, keeping my primary logs
> clean. =:^)

I was thinking about this and another advantage of split log files is
that you could have different rotation/retention policies for each.  I
believe journald's log rotation is one-size-fits-all.

-- 
Rich