Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
As we start a new year, I'm thinking about data retention in
general. :)
In my experience, it's pretty rare on an end-user laptop or desktop system for
logs from much more than the previous boot to be interesting. Maybe I
occasionally want to look back a little while to see if a problem just
started. It's exceedingly rare that I need (or want) to look back more than
a month.
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.
That sounds very reasonable to me. As long as we document this properly,
anyone who wants to keep logs for ever, can change the setting
themselves pretty easily.
Cheers,
Dan