[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFCv7] Optionally save core dumps as plain files

[Michael Biebl]

2014-06-23 10:28 GMT+02:00 Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com>:
> Le vendredi 20 juin 2014 à 20:02 +0200, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
>
>> 2) I change the paths to store this in. I drop the coredumps in
>>    /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ now. While the journal logs appear to be
>>    something worth sharing across the network as "logs"; I am not
>>    convinced that the coredumps would fit that category.
>
> How about storing those in /var/cache/systemd/coredump ? This would make
> obvious they can be safely removed at any time..

Data in /var/cache is supposed to be data which can be (easily)
regenerated. coredumps do not really fit that.

I think  /var/lib/systemd/coredump/ is fine for that purpose.

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