Forgive me if this has been discussed. I'm new to the list.
I've just today installed ext3 .5d in my machine. All drives (including
'/'). I like it! However, I'm curious about what it's doing. I
don't
know C, so telling me to read source won't help. I'm wondering if it
would make sense to provide a facility (probably at the VFS level so
that all filesystems could use it) to allow a filesystem to report on
what it is doing through the syslog facility. This ability would of
course, default to 'off' but would be enabled by 'cat 1 >
/proc/fs/syslogging' or some similar manner.
I know that the current fs types would probably be boring (ext2, msdos,
etc) and you wouldn't get much from this. But with Reiser, ext3, Tux2
(and it's tail-merging), IBM's jfs, and others I think there might be
some worthwhile information to be gathered. 'Writing to journal',
'Purgig journal', 'Tail-merging inode 2341->2352', etc...
Does anyone else think there might be a use (at least for debugging?) of
such a facility?
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Douglas J. Hunley (Linux User #174778)
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