Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755766Ab3C1JK3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:10:29 -0400 Received: from rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de ([194.94.155.52]:37457 "EHLO rrzmta2.uni-regensburg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753095Ab3C1JK1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:10:27 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 634 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:10:27 EDT Message-Id: <51541493020000A100010188@gwsmtp1.uni-regensburg.de> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 12.0.2 Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:59:47 +0100 From: "Ulrich Windl" To: Subject: Suggestion for improving kernel messages on ext3-mount for consistency Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2220 Lines: 58 Hi! I have a kind of trivial suggestion for improving the kernel messages for ext3-fs mounts to be more consistent and useful: Most messages for ext3-mounting include the device, like: kernel: [ 823.233892] EXT3-fs (dm-7): using internal journal kernel: [ 823.233899] EXT3-fs (dm-7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode However some messages do not include a device, even though they seem device specific. For example: kernel: [ 823.210989] EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled kernel: [ 823.233218] kjournald starting. Commit interval 15 seconds This was observed in the current SLES11 SP2 kernel (3.0.58-0.6.6). I haven't queried the sources, but it looks like an easy change... BTW: The kjournal threads are also anonymous in the process list (while xfs (for example) names them): # ps ax |grep journ 418 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 1070 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 1071 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 1072 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 1073 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 1074 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 1075 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 5461 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 5499 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 5601 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 5642 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 5648 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 5653 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 5661 ? S 0:00 [kjournald] 5873 tty1 S+ 0:00 grep journ # ps ax |grep xfs 5506 ? S< 0:00 [xfs_mru_cache] 5507 ? S< 0:00 [xfslogd] 5508 ? S< 0:00 [xfsdatad] 5509 ? S< 0:00 [xfsconvertd] 5510 ? S 0:00 [xfsbufd/dm-10] 5511 ? S 0:00 [xfsaild/dm-10] 5518 ? S 0:00 [xfsbufd/dm-11] 5519 ? S 0:00 [xfsaild/dm-11] 5560 ? S 0:00 [xfsbufd/dm-12] 5561 ? S 0:00 [xfsaild/dm-12] 5593 ? S 0:00 [xfsbufd/dm-13] 5594 ? S 0:00 [xfsaild/dm-13] 5875 tty1 S+ 0:00 grep xfs Regards, Ulrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/