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  2. OCPBUGS-55743

Ramdisk logs are unreadable and unparseable

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      * Previously, ramdisk logs did not include clear file separators, causing the content from one file to merge into random lines of another file. Because of this issue, distinguishing what content belonged to which file was difficult. With this release, file entries now include file separators so that each file is clearly indicated from the contents of the other file being merged into a ramdisk log file. (link:https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-55743[OCPBUGS-55743])
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      * Previously, ramdisk logs did not include clear file separators, causing the content from one file to merge into random lines of another file. Because of this issue, distinguishing what content belonged to which file was difficult. With this release, file entries now include file separators so that each file is clearly indicated from the contents of the other file being merged into a ramdisk log file. (link: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-55743 [ OCPBUGS-55743 ])
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      This is a clone of issue OCPBUGS-55381. The following is the description of the original issue:
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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
              openshift-crt-jira-prow OpenShift Prow Bot
              Jad Haj Yahya Jad Haj Yahya
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