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authorTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2014-07-05 18:40:52 -0400
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2014-07-05 18:40:52 -0400
commitae0f78de2c43b6fadd007c231a352b13b5be8ed2 (patch)
tree243984acac3b2d742acb0974a5fecf4aeb15761b /fs/ext4
parent61c219f5814277ecb71d64cb30297028d6665979 (diff)
downloadlinux-ae0f78de2c43b6fadd007c231a352b13b5be8ed2.tar.gz
ext4: clarify error count warning messages
Make it clear that values printed are times, and that it is error
since last fsck. Also add note about fsck version required.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4')
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/super.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index b9b9aabfb4d2..342394772b6c 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2809,10 +2809,11 @@ static void print_daily_error_info(unsigned long arg)
 	es = sbi->s_es;
 
 	if (es->s_error_count)
-		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_NOTICE, "error count: %u",
+		/* fsck newer than v1.41.13 is needed to clean this condition. */
+		ext4_msg(sb, KERN_NOTICE, "error count since last fsck: %u",
 			 le32_to_cpu(es->s_error_count));
 	if (es->s_first_error_time) {
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "EXT4-fs (%s): initial error at %u: %.*s:%d",
+		printk(KERN_NOTICE "EXT4-fs (%s): initial error at time %u: %.*s:%d",
 		       sb->s_id, le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_error_time),
 		       (int) sizeof(es->s_first_error_func),
 		       es->s_first_error_func,
@@ -2826,7 +2827,7 @@ static void print_daily_error_info(unsigned long arg)
 		printk("\n");
 	}
 	if (es->s_last_error_time) {
-		printk(KERN_NOTICE "EXT4-fs (%s): last error at %u: %.*s:%d",
+		printk(KERN_NOTICE "EXT4-fs (%s): last error at time %u: %.*s:%d",
 		       sb->s_id, le32_to_cpu(es->s_last_error_time),
 		       (int) sizeof(es->s_last_error_func),
 		       es->s_last_error_func,