[PATCH lorax/master] Remove /var/log/journal so journald won't write to overlay

[Will Woods]

It's pretty pointless to copy data from /run/log/journal to
/var/log/journal, since both of those are in-memory filesystems.

This should somewhat reduce RAM use during installation.
---
 share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl b/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
index e9a4d48..94f113c 100644
--- a/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
+++ b/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ systemctl mask fedora-configure.service fedora-loadmodules.service \
                fedora-autorelabel.service fedora-autorelabel-mark.service \
                fedora-wait-storage.service media.mount

+## Don't write the journal to the overlay, just keep it in RAM
+remove var/log/journal
+
 ## install some basic configuration files
 append etc/resolv.conf ""
 append etc/fstab ""

[Vratislav Podzimek]

On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 14:32 -0400, Will Woods wrote:
> It's pretty pointless to copy data from /run/log/journal to
> /var/log/journal, since both of those are in-memory filesystems.
> This should somewhat reduce RAM use during installation.
>
> share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl b/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
> index e9a4d48..94f113c 100644
> --- a/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
> +++ b/share/runtime-postinstall.tmpl
> @@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ systemctl mask fedora-configure.service fedora-loadmodules.service \
>                 fedora-autorelabel.service fedora-autorelabel-mark.service \
>                 fedora-wait-storage.service media.mount
>
> +## Don't write the journal to the overlay, just keep it in RAM
> +remove var/log/journal
>
> ## install some basic configuration files
>  append etc/resolv.conf ""
>  append etc/fstab ""

Looks good to me.