Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] NFS: trace points added to mounting path

Steve Dickson
2009-01-22T13:07:43Z

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:58 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Do we want to trace points:
>> 1) at all
>> 2) for debugging
>> 3) for performance
>> 4) 2 and 3
>>
>> Once we get the above nailed down then we can decide how to go...
>
> I think it might be a good idea to flesh out a bit what you mean by
> "debugging" here. Since you mentioned it in conjunction with the two
> words "administrators" and "scripts", I assume that you are not talking
> about kernel code debugging?
I'm talking debugging for both admins and kernel people...

With trace points and systemtap you can do both.

steved.