[ohazi]

Does anyone need to keep system logs for fifty years?

Practically speaking, I'm fine with a constraint where the systemd database format + tools need to be roughly kept in sync. I can't think of a realistic example where this wouldn't be the case. Most of the logs in this database are supposed to be ephemeral.

If you're in banking or medicine or something and are required to keep certain logs for a decade+, you should figure out what you actually want to keep and put it in a format that would be reasonable to access on that kind of timeline.

[marcosdumay]

> Practically speaking, I'm fine with a constraint where the systemd database format + tools need to be roughly kept in sync. I can't think of a realistic example where this wouldn't be the case.

That can only happen in practice if you take the logger and tools from the same group of developers. Yet another case of forced lock-in from Systemd.

[_jal]

We keep logs for either 3 or 7 years, depending. journald is a waste of electrons for us, and that's one (of several) reasons why.