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		jhasse on July 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linus: “I no longer feel like I can trust ‘init’ t... Do you mean that logs are cleared on every boot? Because that isn't happening for me.

JdeBP on July 10, 2017 [–]

In one configuration, journald logs to an in-memory filesystem; in another, it logs to an on-disc filesystem; in a third, it tries on-disc and falls back to in-memory; in a fourth it does not save the log either in memory or on disc. Different distributions configure this differently.

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