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Message-ID: <20131119102630.GB5107@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:26:30 -0800
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jbd: Lower severity of aborted journal from EMERG to CRIT
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.
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