[VLM]

"Growth was planned for."

One interesting problem with almost all of the "advantages" of binary logs, is if they're good reasons today, they would have been really awesome reasons in '93 when I started admining my first linux box. The problem with changing the way I've been doing things is I'm already used to the staggering change in performance from a 40 meg non-DMA PATA drive in '93 to dual raid fractional terabyte SSDs. Its really quite a boost in raw power. Yet what I need to log hasn't changed much. So performance gains have been spectacular. So the comparative appeal is incredibly low. It wasn't a "real problem" in '93. Its maybe a thousandth of that problem level today due to technological improvement.

"Hey, if you change everything in your infrastructure, and all your machines, and all your command lines and procedures and ways of thinking to access logs, you MIGHT be 5% more efficient, well, eventually, in the long term" "Eh so what I remember transitioning from spinning rust to SSD and getting 100x the overall system-wide performance a couple years ago, if I want 5% its more economic just to wait for the next tech boost. Also shrinking basically zero load and effort by half is worthless if there's any cost at all, and unfortunately the cost is absolutely huge."