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authorAlex Gartrell <agartrell@fb.com>2018-02-27 09:37:23 -0800
committerAlex Gartrell <agartrell@fb.com>2018-03-20 14:54:07 -0700
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parent57850536d501376feb46fe908418937376efe85f (diff)
downloadsystemd-1b7cf0e5879ec04cb372766385228e8fb75e5500.tar.gz
journal: make the compression threshold tunable
Allow a user to set a number of bytes as Compress to use as the compression threshold.
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diff --git a/man/journald.conf.xml b/man/journald.conf.xml
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@@ -107,10 +107,13 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><varname>Compress=</varname></term>
- <listitem><para>Takes a boolean value. If enabled (the
- default), data objects that shall be stored in the journal and
- are larger than a certain threshold are compressed before they
- are written to the file system.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Can take a boolean value. If enabled (the
+ default), data objects that shall be stored in the journal
+ and are larger than the default threshold of 512 bytes are
+ compressed before they are written to the file system. It
+ can also be set to a number of bytes to specify the
+ compression threshold directly. Suffixes like K, M, and G
+ can be used to specify larger units.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>