[systemd-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Journal File Format Documentation

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 10/23/2012 06:40 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> The journal currently cannot do this for you, but what it already can is
> split up the journal per-user. This is done by default only for login
> users, (i.e. actual human users), but with the SplitMode= setting in
> journald.conf can be enabled for system users as well, or turned off
> entirely. We could extend this switch to allow other split-up schemes.
>
> But note that the price you pay for interleaving files on display grows
> with the more you split things up (O(n) being n number of files to
> interleave), hence we are a bit conservative here, we don't want to push
> people towards splitting up things too much, unless they have a really
> good reason to.

If I'm understanding this correctly would it not better simply/suffician 
support splitting the journal up via cli instead of doing it "real time" ?

JBG