Yes, unreadable with a text editor. Meaning that if you have a computer problem and journald or systemd is broken you have can't consult the log files, unless you did install rsyslog or sometimes before that. Meanwhile by default journald will eat a few GBs of disk space soon.

[–] voracread@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Compared to this what is the advantage of binary form? I thought log files being text was a no brainer.

[–] uiiiq@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Storage efficiency, faster queries, more metadata, unified format, etc. If your host breaks, you can download the journals and open then elsewhere. Also, there is nothing stopping you from configuring it to output to a file.

[–] voracread@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Open them elsewhere is also true for text files I guess.

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