In MDEV-14425, an early plan was to introduce a separate log file
for file-level records and checkpoint information. The reasoning was
that fil_system.mutex contention would be reduced by not having to
maintain fil_system.named_spaces. The mutex contention was actually
fixed in MDEV-23855 by making some data fields in fil_space_t and
fil_node_t use std::atomic.

Using a single circular log file simplifies recovery and backup.