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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:28:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001217232846.W3199@cadcamlab.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001217153453.O5323@marowsky-bree.de> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012171314050.16143-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca> <20001217194334.V5323@marowsky-bree.de>
In-Reply-To: <20001217194334.V5323@marowsky-bree.de>; from lmb@suse.de on Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 07:43:35PM +0100


  [Mark Hahn]
> > reinventing /proc/kmsg and klogd would be tre gross.

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]
> Well, only one process can read kmsg and get notified about new
> messages at any time, so that makes the monitoring depend on
> klogd/syslogd working, which given a write error by syslog might not
> be the case...

So rewrite klogd to do something much simpler for serious errors (yes
they will be tagged as such) before trying to pass them on to syslogd.
Or does it already do this?  It's a userspace problem.

Peter
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-12-18  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-17 14:34 Lars Marowsky-Bree
2000-12-17 18:23 ` Mark Hahn
2000-12-17 18:43   ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2000-12-18  5:28     ` Peter Samuelson [this message]
2000-12-18  8:46       ` Jan-Benedict Glaw

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