On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Matthew Miller
<mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:04:28AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> > 6. Strong QA exploring corner cases and data corruption (procedure tbd)
>> > 7. Clear, simple, and Fedora-centric disaster recovery documentation
>> I am not sure 6/7 are strong requisites. We certainly shipped stuff that
>> was hard to deal with when it broke before.
>> I would love to see this done for F19 but I think it would be unfair to
>> block the feature just on point 6/7 unless there is a significant higher
>> risk of issues with the journal than there ever was with malfunctioning
>> (r)syslog.
>>
>> Is your worry that because the journal file is a binary format and not a
>> plain text file that corruption of the journal files is more likely /
>> more problematic ?
>
> It isn't that systemd/journald are particularly unreliable or risky
> inherently. It's just a big change, which is a big risk *for Fedora*, and we
> should be extra diligent so that the reception is positive. It doesn't take
> many undiscovered corner cases to make the change a fiasco.
>
> The quality assurance process here doesn't need to be turned up to 11, but
> it does need to at least be thorough. Likewise the DR documentation will
> help ease the transition simply by existing. (And here, I'm not just talking
> about recovering from systemd failures, but, for example hardware failure
> that corrupts the journal, or simply takes down the machine so dead-system
> forensics are required.)
>
>> Is your worry that because the journal file is a binary format and not a
>> plain text file that corruption of the journal files is more likely /
>> more problematic ?
>
> I don't know if it's more likely. It's seems to be almost a tautology that
> corrupt binary formats are more problematic. Just the other day I hit
> something that caused a corrupted journal and made journalctl stop telling
> me things. (bz 865091) I really was at a loss as to what to do. That might
> have just been a weird glitch, but... well, isn't that the point?

Well binary does not imply encrypted ... you can still extract data
out of "unreadable" journal files.
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