Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:34:53 +0100
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors
Message-ID: <20001217153453.O5323@marowsky-bree.de>
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Good morning,

currently, there is no way for an external application to monitor whether a
filesystem or underlaying block device has hit an error condition - internal
inconsistency, read or write error, whatever.

Short of parsing syslog messages, which isn't particularly great.

This is necessary for server monitoring in general.

I don't have a real idea how this could be added, short of adding a field to
/proc/partitions (error count) or something similiar.

Comments?

Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>

-- 
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