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What I meant by "canonical" is that you can't get rid of the binary log; you can pipe it into a database, or a textfile, or /dev/null, if you want, but that database or textfile is transcoded copy of the binary log.

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Every log ever is a transcodification of a system state. What difference does it actually make that it is emitted into systemd structured format before being put into your logger?

Seems like a pointless complain to me. It’s arguing for the sake of it.

Oh, I didn't complain. I know better than to come to HN and complain about systemd.

That's not true, you can configure journald to be in-memory only in which case there's no binary log, no file. If your using systems, you can't really git rid of journald, but you can get rid of the binary logs.

I wasn't aware of that. Can you make the memory usage arbitrarily small?

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