[systemd-devel] Why journal logs are stored in binary?

Nishant Nayan nayan.nishant2000 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 03:47:38 UTC 2021


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?



Nishant
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