Bug 977771

Summary:	System_Daemons: Should "/var/run/journal is volatile" be in the past tense?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora Documentation	Reporter:	Jiro Matsuzawa <jmatsuzawa>
Component:	release-notes	Assignee:	Pete Travis <me>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Docs QA <docs-qa>
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Description Jiro Matsuzawa 2013-06-25 10:03:37 UTC

Description of problem:
In the following sentence:
"In previous releases, journal data was stored in <filename>/var/run/journal</filename>, which is volatile and cleared on reboot."

Should "which is volatile..." be written in the past tense? Does it mean "which was volatile..."?
I'm sorry if I misunderstand the sentence.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F19

Comment 1 Pete Travis 2013-06-26 04:29:05 UTC

The tense change is a little confusing, but intentional. The clause "which is volatile and cleared on reboot" applies to the object that precedes it, "/var/run/journal". So, while the journal data is no longer stored in /var/log/journal, it remains volatile. Actually, it is a symlink to /run, which is a tmpfs volume by default; but, I think that was covered in previous release notes.