From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:15:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091111111535.GA25325@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AFA6E2D.7010709@garzik.org>
* Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> On 11/11/2009 02:45 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >* Jeff Garzik<jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> >
> >>On 11/11/2009 01:34 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>>Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> >>>>Maybe this is enough for POWERTOP, however for general use, the dirty
> >>>>type(data/metadata) and inode number may be valuable to some users?
> >>>
> >>>what can a user do with an inode number????
> >>
> >>Inode numbers have always been visible to userspace... IIRC, tar(1)
> >>uses the st_ino member of struct stat to detect hard links in certain
> >>cases. ls(1) displays inode numbers with -i, find(1) looks for them
> >>with -inum, ...
> >
> >Without an inode->vfs-name lookup/matching service it's of limited
> >utility
>
> Look in the quoted text for one such service... :)
I'm not sure i understand your point - do you really suggest using
find(1) to make traces readable?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-11 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 5:53 [PATCH] vfs: Add a trace point in the mark_inode_dirty function Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-26 6:03 ` Andrew Morton
2009-10-26 6:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-27 16:01 ` Jason Baron
2009-11-11 2:01 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-11-11 6:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11 6:40 ` Wu Fengguang
2009-11-11 7:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-11 7:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11 7:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-11-11 11:15 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-11-11 17:27 ` Kok, Auke
2009-11-11 18:29 ` Theodore Tso
2009-11-11 18:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-11 18:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-12 2:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11 16:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11 23:10 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-11-11 23:37 ` Kok, Auke
2009-11-12 7:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-20 10:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-20 10:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-20 14:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-20 16:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-11-20 16:45 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-11 2:33 ` Li Zefan
2009-11-15 19:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-11-16 0:56 ` Li Zefan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-26 20:56 Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-28 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-28 18:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-29 1:41 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29 4:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-11-29 5:15 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29 14:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-11-29 14:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-11-29 16:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-11-30 0:37 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-11-29 3:53 ` Nick Piggin
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