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