On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Martin Pitt wrote:
Did you move the old directory back (which should not touch the files and inodes of the old journal files at all) or did that actually involved file copying (in which case the files/disk location/fragmentation could have been subtly changed)?
I actually copied them back, although if journalctl is concerned with the on-disk layout I'd be mightily surprised! Note that the symptom was an ever-growing heap without any IO syscalls.
Just to confirm, did systemd get updated in between the time you could still reproduce it and now?
It hasn't been updated since, although checking dpkg.log I see that systemd was upgraded (226-4 -> 227-2) earlier on the day that I first noticed the bug.
-- Edward Allcutt
