Weird behaviour of /var/log/lastlog on F24/Rawhide?

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Hey, folks. I just noticed something a bit odd in the behaviour of
/var/log/lastlog . IIRC, this is supposed to be a symlink that's
pointed to the most recent log file to be updated (somehow or other).
However, in openQA tests and also on my workstation, I've seen it be -
seemingly - an extremely large regular file which doesn't actually take
up as much space as it should. For e.g., right now this is how it shows
on my Rawhide workstation:

[adamw@adam openqa_fedora (freeipa-password %)]$ ls -lh /var/log/lastlog 
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 43G Jul 14 13:19 /var/log/lastlog

But note the output of du:

4.2G	/var/log

of which 4.1G is /var/log/journal . So it seems the file isn't 'really'
taking up any space at all.

Anyone know what's going on?
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