Re: Why journal logs are stored in binary?

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On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 09:17:38AM +0530, Nishant Nayan wrote:
> I searched as to why journal logs are in binary format unlike plaintext
> syslog, one answer was 'for faster log scanning', how does binary format
> helps in faster scanning and what are the advantages of it?
> 

See thread [0], also linked from [1].

Regards,
Vito Caputo

[0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-October/007054.html
[1] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v249/docs/JOURNAL_FILE_FORMAT.md



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