From: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
To: linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: blktrace & btrace usability
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:41:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080122164145.GB4531@hasse.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47906577.8090604@tlinx.org>
On Fri, Jan 18, 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?
Maybe I can help here.
blktrace is used by the preload package. The preload package is capable of
remapping blocks for faster booting. Therefore we need the blktrace
output. But we only have a remapper for ext3.
Hope that helps,
Jan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-22 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-18 8:38 blktrace & btrace usability Linda Walsh
2008-01-18 9:08 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-18 22:31 ` Linda Walsh
2008-01-20 20:02 ` Jens Axboe
2008-01-22 16:41 ` Jan Blunck [this message]
2008-01-22 20:00 ` Linda Walsh
2008-01-23 13:27 ` Jan Blunck
2008-01-23 23:17 ` Linda Walsh
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