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The journalctl binary format seems to handle corruption pretty well. That was a design criteria.

Thanks for pointing that out. I guess thats why they came up with their own format instead of just using sqlite, or something else that is already a standard.

Everyone forgets or tries to ignore that text files ARE A BINARY FORMAT

That's a bit pedantic, even for HN standards :-)

But yes, I know all about fragile log parsers and race conditions of multiple processes writing to the same file. I was just thinking about a scenario where you end up having to read raw logs when things go haywire.