On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 4:54 PM Kevin Kofler via devel
<devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
> Right now, we don't set MaxRetentionSec, so journal expiry on Workstation
> is entirely based on disk usage.
>
> Logs can accidentally contain sensitive data, and it's just plain faster
> to work with them when there's less. I propose we set this to something
> like six months by default.
I don't think we should be destroying data by default. There should be no
expiry by default.
Indirectly they already expire by default. It's just a different
expiration date for everyone, because the current policy depends on a
combination of free space remaining and maximum number of files.
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Chris Murphy