Was thinking about json a little more - looks like no kernel examples (other than user space tools that produce, not consume from the kernel) json (see e.g. "jsonw_printf") More machine readable examples in debug output do exist - maybe format more like an xfs example (see below), keep the output terse and then we can let the proposed smbinfo (smb3info or whatever) dump this is human readable form: # cat /proc/fs/xfs/stat extent_alloc 0 0 0 0 abt 0 0 0 0 blk_map 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 bmbt 0 0 0 0 dir 0 0 0 0 On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 3:51 AM Aurélien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think we really should have a machine-readable file where we just dump > everything in json or something and let a separate userspace tool filter > and display things. > > There are a couple of consumers of the DebugData file (I know of at > least PCP [1] but I'm sure there are others out there) and there's a > high chance they break everytime we change the output. > > 1: https://pcp.io/ > https://github.com/performancecopilot/pcp/tree/8c9b0442d0c5116d65f432e4c3aff0571f60efb8/src/pmdas/cifs > > -- > Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team > GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 > SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- Thanks, Steve
