Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:59:33 +0000 | From | Alain Williams <> | Subject | Re: scary ext2 filesystem question |
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On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 11:37:34PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > a single choke point, specifically to make logging easier. My current > thinking is to write out a binary log file, which can be interpreted > later using an appropriate program. Part of the reason for doing this Whatever you do please ensure that the file is in a format that can be read by machines other than the sort (ie hardware/program-version) that wrote it. There is nothing worse than a binary file that can only be read on an identical machine to the one that wrote it.
-- Alain Williams
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