Re: [PATCH] jbd: Lower severity of aborted journal from EMERG to CRIT

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 05:45:33PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> dead. If it was an important filesystem in your system, the whole system is
> unusable. In kernel, we don't know whether the filesystem was important or
> not. So KERN_EMERG isn't adequate in all the cases but KERN_CRIT is
> neither. What if we made that message print also device name (it would be
> more useful anyway in that case) and you could then filter out messages for
> unimportant devices in syslogd?

What is important or unimportant?  In todays world I don't think a fs
dying is nessecarily criticial.  A root filesystem might be, but so
might be any devices that is a single point of failure required for
operation.

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