On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 07:55:01PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > That means we have to work together to find common ground and a > solution that works for everyone. What I've suggested allows all > filesystems to supply the same information for the same events. It > also allows filesystems to include their own private diagnostic > information appended to the generic message, thereby fulfulling both > the goals of both David Howells' original patchset and Gabriel's > derived ext4 specific patchset. So the simple common ground would be a plain text message, which is what *I* had suggested. But I saw you requesting some complex object based system which XFS has. I think if we want to keep something that is common, it's going to have to be kept simple. Do you not agree? - Ted