Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 7af88c1e1e journald: allow default storage mode to be configured ...

So far the idea was that the default is 'auto', and if appropriate, the
distribution will create /var/log/journal/ to tell journald to use persistent
mode. This doesn't work well with factory resets, because after a factory reset
obviously /var/log is gone. That old default was useful when journald was new
and people were reluctant to enable persistent mode and instead relied on
rsyslog and such for the persistent storage. But nowadays that is rarer, and
anyway various features like user journals only work with persistent storage,
so we want people to enable this by default. Add an option to flip the default
and distributions can opt in. The default default value remains unchanged.

(I also tested using tmpfiles to instead change this, since we already set
access mode for /var/log/journal through tmpfiles. Unfortunately, tmpfiles runs
too late, after journald has already started, so if tmpfiles creates the
directory, it'll only be used after a reboot. This probably could be made to
work by adding a new service to flush the journal, but that becomes complicated
and we lose the main advantage of simplicity.)

Resolves https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387796.

2025-11-13 00:08:31 +01:00

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