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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html