systemd version the issue has been seen with

258.0

Used distribution

Arch Linux stable

Linux kernel version used

6.16.7-arch1-1

CPU architectures issue was seen on

x86_64

Component

systemd-journald

Expected behaviour you didn't see

Customized journald setting SplitMode=none should work that journal files /var/log/journal/machine-id/user-$UID.journal are not created.

Unexpected behaviour you saw

Since upgrade to 258 version user log was created.

Steps to reproduce the problem

Customized systemd-journald settings:

[Journal]
Storage=persistent
SplitMode=none
SystemMaxUse=64M

Additional program output to the terminal or log subsystem illustrating the issue