From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] NFS: trace points added to mounting path
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:07:43 -0500
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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 14:58 -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Do we want to trace points:
>>     1) at all 
>>     2) for debugging 
>>     3) for performance
>>     4) 2 and 3
>>
>> Once we get the above nailed down then we can decide how to go...
> 
> I think it might be a good idea to flesh out a bit what you mean by
> "debugging" here. Since you mentioned it in conjunction with the two
> words "administrators" and "scripts", I assume that you are not talking
> about kernel code debugging?
I'm talking debugging for both admins and kernel people...

With trace points and systemtap you can do both.

steved.