Monday 13 November 2017

Re: Should Ubuntu systemd journal logs be persistent by default?

Hi Ryan,

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:33:14AM -0600, Ryan Harper wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Robie Basak <robie.basak@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:11:27PM +0000, Mark Stosberg wrote:
> > > Some time around the 15.04 release, a policy change was made to quit
> > > making some logging persistent by default.
> >
> > To help me understand the problem, exactly what logging was persistent
> > previously, and isn't persistent now? Can you please give us an example?
> >
>
> Any data in systemd-journal that is not flush to /var/log/* is gone
> forever on power fail due
> to the journal being hosted on ephemeral tmpfs (/run/log/journal);

I understand that part, but that doesn't really answer my question. Mark
said that some logging that was persistent is no longer persistent - in
other words, that there has been a regression.

So what exactly is only going to the systemd journal now (and thus not
being persisted) that was being saved somewhere persistently before?