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by regularfry 190 days ago
All of this, every last bit of complexity and breakage and sweat, is downstream of this:

> Journal logs are not stored in plain text. They use a binary format

And it was entirely predictable and predicted that this sort of problem would be the result when that choice was made.

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That's why I hexify all binary files, to make it easier to understand them.
Unix philosophy strikes again