From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:08:08 +0000 Subject: Re: blktrace & btrace usability Message-Id: <20080118090808.GN6258@kernel.dk> List-Id: References: <47906577.8090604@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: <47906577.8090604@tlinx.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 18 2008, Linda Walsh wrote: > I was examining the SuSE10.3 boot process and noted > it is setup to start & stop blktrace while the system > is booting. Odd think is that it checks to verify that > the root file system is of type "ext3". > > Is that a "SuSEism" or is there some reason why it wouldn't > work with any file system? Interesting, I never noticed that before. Don't know why they check for ext3, perhaps their post processing tools map blocks to files and only works for ext3? -- Jens Axboe