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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	Steve Hodgson <steve@purestorage.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add blockconsole version 1.1
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:39:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120725163905.GA28036@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201207250917.09516.tvrtko.ursulin@onelan.co.uk>

On Wed, 25 July 2012 09:17:09 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> 
> As far as I know there is nothing like netpoll in the block layer so it has to 
> be a lot less reliable than netconsole. Especially with delaying write out to 
> a workqueue. Anyway, I am not arguing, just saying in my opinion those caveats 
> are worth documenting.
...
> My point was that it's reliability will differ depending on the block device 
> in use, which is unlike netconsole. Again I am not arguing against the 
> feature, but if you don't see things like these are worth documenting I give 
> up.

I have nothing against documenting things.  Can you suggest something
better than "reliability of blockconsole will depend on the
reliability of the underlying storage layer", which sounds rather
obvious?

Jörn

--
I don't understand it. Nobody does.
-- Richard P. Feynman

      reply	other threads:[~2012-07-25 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-24 20:59 [RFC][PATCH] add blockconsole Jörn Engel
2012-04-25 13:42 ` Jeff Moyer
2012-04-25 13:25   ` Jörn Engel
2012-04-25 15:52     ` Jeff Moyer
2012-07-12 17:46       ` [PATCH] add blockconsole version 1.1 Jörn Engel
2012-07-13 13:03         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-13 16:20           ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-13 21:14             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-16 12:46             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-18 18:53               ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-18 21:45                 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-18 21:08                   ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-19  9:26                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-23 20:04                   ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-24 15:42                     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 14:53                       ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-24 16:25                         ` Borislav Petkov
2012-07-24 17:52                           ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-24 20:28                             ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-19 10:20                               ` Borislav Petkov
2012-08-14 11:54                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-07-23 14:33         ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2012-07-23 20:02           ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-24  8:01             ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2012-07-24 14:38               ` Jörn Engel
2012-07-25  8:17                 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2012-07-25 16:39                   ` Jörn Engel [this message]

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