Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors

2000-12-18 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 11:28:46PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [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

Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors

2000-12-17 Thread Peter Samuelson
[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

Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors

2000-12-17 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2000-12-17T13:23:52, Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Short of parsing syslog messages, which isn't particularly great. > what's wrong with it? Because it means having to know about all potential messages the filesystems might dump out. > reinventing /proc/kmsg and klogd would be t

Re: Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors

2000-12-17 Thread Mark Hahn
> 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?

Monitoring filesystems / blockdevice for errors

2000-12-17 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
Good morning, 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. This is necessar