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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: export information about first/last errors via /sys/fs/ext4/<dev>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 12:24:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200109172451.GD33929@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200109091240.GA27035@quack2.suse.cz>

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:12:40AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Mon 23-12-19 19:05:41, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Make {first,last}_error_{ino,block,line,func,errcode} available via
> > sysfs.
> > 
> > Also add a missing newline for {first,last}_error_time.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> 
> The patch looks good to me. You can add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> 
> I'm just wondering a bit why do you need this? Some system monitoring
> thing?

Yes, precisely.  Especially in cloud environments, where the disk
often gets deleted when the VM is terminated, so reading the this
information from the superblock won't be possible.

						- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2020-01-09 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-24  0:05 [PATCH] ext4: export information about first/last errors via /sys/fs/ext4/<dev> Theodore Ts'o
2020-01-09  9:12 ` Jan Kara
2020-01-09 17:24   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]

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