Cherry-pick #9234 to 6.x: Add cursor_seek_fallback option #9274
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Cherry-pick of PR #9234 to 6.x branch. Original message:
New option is introduced to configure the fallback method of seek mode
"cursor"
. The option is namedcursor_seek_fallback
. The name is taken from the community Journalbeat: https://github.com/mheese/journalbeat/blob/master/config/journalbeat.yml#L3By default it seeks to the beginning as before. But from now on it is possible to configure it to start reading from the end of the journal.