Re: [PATCH] jbd: Lower severity of aborted journal from EMERG to CRIT

[Jan Kara]

On Tue 19-11-13 02:26:30, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:45:33PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > dead. If it was an important filesystem in your system, the whole system is
> > unusable. In kernel, we don't know whether the filesystem was important or
> > not. So KERN_EMERG isn't adequate in all the cases but KERN_CRIT is
> > neither. What if we made that message print also device name (it would be
> > more useful anyway in that case) and you could then filter out messages for
> > unimportant devices in syslogd?
> 
> What is important or unimportant?  In todays world I don't think a fs
> dying is nessecarily criticial.  A root filesystem might be, but so
> might be any devices that is a single point of failure required for
> operation.
  Agreed. And that is a reason to keep messages KERN_EMERG or change them
to KERN_CRIT? I can see arguments in both ways and so I don't feel a strong
incentive to change what we have now...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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