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Ask HN: Why does systemd insist on using binary logs?
3 by flippinburgers | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I am curious to know the reasons. Moving away from text makes very little sense to me. - Binary gives minor compression advantages from what I understand. - Having to learn yet-another-tool seems a real pain. - A walled garden is good from the point of view of the creators of systemd? - Arrogance?