linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND] mount: warn only once about timestamp range expiration

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Message-ID: <20220120084707.bsiyxudl4yfqqywd@wittgenstein>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:47:07 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@...e.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] mount: warn only once about timestamp range
 expiration

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 09:29:34PM +0100, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote:
> Commit f8b92ba67c5d ("mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp
> expiry") introduced a mount warning regarding filesystem timestamp
> limits, that is printed upon each writable mount or remount.
> 
> This can result in a lot of unnecessary messages in the kernel log in
> setups where filesystems are being frequently remounted (or mounted
> multiple times).
> 
> Avoid this by setting a superblock flag which indicates that the warning
> has been emitted at least once for any particular mount, as suggested in
> [1].
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@...e.com>
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/CAHk-=wim6VGnxQmjfK_tDg6fbHYKL4EFkmnTjVr9QnRqjDBAeA@mail.gmail.com/
> ---

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>