linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] btrfs: don't print information about space cache or tree every remount

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:46:35 +0200
From:   David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
To:     "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
Cc:     Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: don't print information about space cache or tree
 every remount

On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 05:28:20PM +0200, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> From: "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <maciej.szmigiero@...cle.com>
> 
> btrfs currently prints information about space cache or free space tree
> being in use on every remount, regardless whether such remount actually
> enabled or disabled one of these features.
> 
> This is actually unnecessary since providing remount options changing the
> state of these features will explicitly print the appropriate notice.
> 
> Let's instead print such unconditional information just on an initial mount
> to avoid filling the kernel log when, for example, laptop-mode-tools
> remount the fs on some events.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <maciej.szmigiero@...cle.com>

Makes sense, added to misc-next, thanks.