linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] JBD2: Change debug file path

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Message-ID: <20070608070812.GE5181@schatzie.adilger.int>
Date:	Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:08:12 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
To:	"Jose R. Santos" <jrs@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] JBD2: Change debug file path

On Jun 07, 2007  23:45 -0500, Jose R. Santos wrote:
> The jbd2-debug file used to be located in /proc/sys/fs/jbd2-debug, but
> create_proc_entry() does not do lookups on file names with more that one
> directory deep.  This causes the entry creation to fail and hence, no proc
> file is created.  This patch moves the file to /proc/jbd2-degug.
> 
> The file could be move to /proc/fs/jbd2/jbd2-debug, but it would require
> some minor alterations to the jbd-stats patch.

I don't think we really want to be adding top-level files in /proc.
What about using the "debugfs" filesystem (not to be confused with
the e2fsprogs 'debugfs' command)?

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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