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                                 influences the granularity in which
                                 disk space is made available through
                                 rotation, i.e. deletion of historic
                                 influences the granularity in which
                                 disk space is made available through
                                 rotation, i.e. deletion of historic
-                                data. Defaults to one eigth of the
+                                data. Defaults to one eighth of the
                                 values configured with
                                 <varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> and
                                 <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname>, so
                                 values configured with
                                 <varname>SystemMaxUse=</varname> and
                                 <varname>RuntimeMaxUse=</varname>, so
                                 <listitem><para>Controls whether
                                 kernel log messages shall be stored in
                                 the journal. Takes a boolean argument
                                 <listitem><para>Controls whether
                                 kernel log messages shall be stored in
                                 the journal. Takes a boolean argument
-                                and defaults to enabled. Note that
+                                and defaults to disabled. Note that
                                 currently only one userspace service
                                 can read kernel messages at a time,
                                 which means that kernel log message
                                 currently only one userspace service
                                 can read kernel messages at a time,
                                 which means that kernel log message
                                 traditional syslog service.
                                 </para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                 traditional syslog service.
                                 </para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
+
+                        <varlistentry>
+                                <term><varname>Storage=</varname></term>
+
+                                <listitem><para>Controls where to
+                                store journal data. One of
+                                <literal>volatile</literal>,
+                                <literal>persistent</literal>,
+                                <literal>auto</literal> and
+                                <literal>none</literal>. If
+                                <literal>volatile</literal> journal
+                                log data will be stored only in
+                                memory, i.e. below the
+                                <filename>/run/log/journal</filename>
+                                hierarchy (which is created if
+                                needed). If
+                                <literal>persistent</literal> data will
+                                be stored preferably on disk,
+                                i.e. below the
+                                <filename>/var/log/journal</filename>
+                                hierarchy (which is created if
+                                needed), with a fallback to
+                                <filename>/run/log/journal</filename>
+                                (which is created if needed), during
+                                early boot and if the disk is not
+                                writable. <literal>auto</literal> is
+                                similar to
+                                <literal>persistent</literal> but the
+                                directory
+                                <filename>/var/log/journal</filename>
+                                is not created if needed, so that its
+                                existence controls where log data
+                                goes. <literal>none</literal> turns
+                                off all storage, all log data received
+                                will be dropped. Forwarding to other
+                                targets, such as the console, the
+                                kernel log buffer or a syslog daemon
+                                will still work however.  Defaults to
+                                <literal>auto</literal>.</para></listitem>
+                        </varlistentry>
                 </variablelist>
 
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                 </variablelist>
 
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