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SubjectRe: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors
> currently, there is no way for an external application to monitor whether a
> filesystem or underlaying block device has hit an error condition - internal
> inconsistency, read or write error, whatever.
>
> Short of parsing syslog messages, which isn't particularly great.

what's wrong with it? reinventing /proc/kmsg and klogd would be tre gross.

> I don't have a real idea how this could be added, short of adding a field to
> /proc/partitions (error count) or something similiar.

for reporting errors, that might be OK, but it's not a particularly nice
_notification_ mechanism...

regards, mark hahn.

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