Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:23:52 -0500 (EST) | From | Mark Hahn <> | Subject | Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors |
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> 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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