Re: BTW: 2.4.19-patches-to-come?

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 09:08, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:04:50AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > > > I don't find this information very explicative. And I really don't know
> > > > enough about reiserfs code to interprete these lines. BTW, can we have a
> > > > "ReiserFS: " in front of these messages?
> > > In fact I think these messages should not be printed at all, there is no
> > > useful information given to the user.
> > I like a summary line: completed X number of truncates and N number of
> > deletes.
> 
> This one can stay, but I am not yet sure we need it anyway.
> I think we should only print this stuff (keys of individual deleted objects
> and total number of late deletions/truncates) if CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK
> was enabled, what do you think?

I like the single line summary, it helps for things like Dirk Mueller's
problem report.  'every time my system <explodes into a ball of flame>,
it is preceded by messages about some number of completed truncates or
unlinks'.

It might point us in the wrong direction, but it is still good
information to have.

-chris