Re: scary ext2 filesystem question

Alain Williams (addw@phcomp.co.uk)
Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:59:33 +0000


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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