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Systemd 195 Brings "Cool New Features"
Phoronix: Systemd 195 Brings "Cool New Features"
Lennart Poettering announced the release of systemd 195 on Monday night. This newest release of systemd brings "a non-trivial amount of cool new features."..
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTIxMzE
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One thing i dislike that systemd brings are binary log files.
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There's no reason you can't keep using syslog-ng/rsyslog with systemd, and the distribution can make it work out-of-the-box (as syslog-ng does with systemd on Arch).Originally Posted by Thaodan
The journal provides structured logging (fields of data, with text or binary data like a network packet), indexed by fields, and with features like inline compression. Other loggers have been moving towards structured logging too for quite a while, rsyslog being one of the leaders (binary formats too). It's true that journald could have used a pre-existing format like sqlite3, but it wouldn't have been as specialized for the use case. The journal file format is documented on fd.o, and there's a backwards compatibility guarantee. You can also easily export the contents as text, if you desire.
The journal is simply another choice, that brings a different set of tradeoffs to the table.
Last edited by strcat; 10-23-2012 at 12:01 PM.
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Lennart Poettering the "Two-faced lying weasel" as Linus Torvalds calls him.
Fuck him and SystemD !!!
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Haha, I hadn't seen that
Link for the curious:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/303
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Kay Sievers was also the udev maintainer before it was moved into the same repository as systemd to share code, and this problem (the 30 second timeout issue) predates that. The followup conversation between Kay and Linus is right there: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/263.
Last edited by strcat; 10-23-2012 at 12:59 PM.
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fix already applyed on in Arch systemd.
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Linus has also said that he likes many things about systemd, thinks it's interesting and shows a lot of promise. Source.
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He also said the following:
LinuxFR : Do you think systemd is a huge improvement in comparison to SysV init ? Is it a game changing technology ?
Linus Torvalds : I also will take a somewhat wait-and-see approach, it's not widely enough used yet. I do think bootup performance is important, and anything that helps that, and helps make it more flexible is a good thing. Would I call it "game changing"? Probably not.
source: http://www.preguntaslinux.org/20-ano....html#pid23925
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