From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd: Lower severity of aborted journal from EMERG to CRIT
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:19:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131121101945.GA23049@quack.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131119102630.GB5107@infradead.org>
On Tue 19-11-13 02:26:30, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:45:33PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > dead. If it was an important filesystem in your system, the whole system is
> > unusable. In kernel, we don't know whether the filesystem was important or
> > not. So KERN_EMERG isn't adequate in all the cases but KERN_CRIT is
> > neither. What if we made that message print also device name (it would be
> > more useful anyway in that case) and you could then filter out messages for
> > unimportant devices in syslogd?
>
> What is important or unimportant? In todays world I don't think a fs
> dying is nessecarily criticial. A root filesystem might be, but so
> might be any devices that is a single point of failure required for
> operation.
Agreed. And that is a reason to keep messages KERN_EMERG or change them
to KERN_CRIT? I can see arguments in both ways and so I don't feel a strong
incentive to change what we have now...
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-21 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-15 14:56 [PATCH] jbd: Lower severity of aborted journal from EMERG to CRIT Lubomir Rintel
2013-11-18 16:45 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-18 17:06 ` Lubomir Rintel
2013-11-21 10:50 ` Jan Kara
2013-11-19 10:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-11-21 10:19 ` Jan Kara [this message]
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