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  2. OCPBUGS-55381

Ramdisk logs are unreadable and unparseable

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      * Before this update, RAM Disk logs did not include clear file separators, which occasionally caused the content to overlap on a single line. As a consequence, users could not parse RAM Disk logs. With this release, RAM Disk logs include clear file headers to indicate the boundary between the content of each file. As a result, the readability of RAM Disk logs for users is improved.(link:https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-55381[OCPBUGS-55381])
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      * Before this update, RAM Disk logs did not include clear file separators, which occasionally caused the content to overlap on a single line. As a consequence, users could not parse RAM Disk logs. With this release, RAM Disk logs include clear file headers to indicate the boundary between the content of each file. As a result, the readability of RAM Disk logs for users is improved.(link: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-55381 [ OCPBUGS-55381 ])
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      Description of problem:

      Ramdisk logs are created by dumping an entire tarball to stdout. As a result, file separators are hard to detect, and sometimes they end up at the end of a random line instead of a new line, like this (ip_addr is the file name):

      2025-04-25T12:05:44.727687118Z 7356cfea-1e0e-4238-9623-007fd58be6cf_openshift-machine-api~ostest-worker-2_11ff0b22-3746-425c-951f-fb482b135dc1_cleaning_2025-04-25-12-05-44.tar.gz: [    1.390910] systemd[1]: Queued start job for default target Initrd De-rw-r--r-- 0/0            1096 2025-04-25 12:05 ip_addr

      Let us try to at least make it clear where one file ends and the next begins.

              rhn-engineering-dtantsur Dmitry Tantsur
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