Commit 566370a2 authored May 28, 2013 by Paul Taysom Committed by Theodore Ts'o May 28, 2013

ext4: suppress ext4 orphan messages on mount

Suppress the messages releating to processing the ext4 orphan list
("truncating inode" and "deleting unreferenced inode") unless the
debug option is on, since otherwise they end up taking up space in the
log that could be used for more useful information.

Tested by opening several files, unlinking them, then
crashing the system, rebooting the system and examining
/var/log/messages.

Addresses the problem described in http://crbug.com/220976



Signed-off-by: Paul Taysom <taysom@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

parent eee06c56

fs/ext4/super.c

+8 −6

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -2164,6 +2164,7 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
		list_add(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan, &EXT4_SB(sb)->s_orphan);
		dquot_initialize(inode);
		if (inode->i_nlink) {
		if (test_opt(sb, DEBUG))
		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_DEBUG,
		"%s: truncating inode %lu to %lld bytes",
		__func__, inode->i_ino, inode->i_size);
		@@ -2175,6 +2176,7 @@ static void ext4_orphan_cleanup(struct super_block *sb,
		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
		nr_truncates++;
		} else {
		if (test_opt(sb, DEBUG))
		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_DEBUG,
		"%s: deleting unreferenced inode %lu",
		__func__, inode->i_ino);

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