[systemd-devel] parallel fsck vs progressbar

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 17.02.11 13:46, Miklos Vajna (vmiklos at frugalware.org) wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 01:11:36AM +0100, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > Hmm, I am kinda keen on keeping the fsck output also in syslog, hence
> > just switching the output from syslog to tty is not ideal. Maybe we
> > should add a mechanism so that we can output things to syslog and
> > console at the same time. (i added this now to the todo list)
> 
> I just saw you implemented it. ;)

Yupp, I did! And the fsck services now use it by default.

> > Another option could be to use -C <fd> to direct the normal output of
> > fsck to syslog, but the progress bar to the console.
> 
> The problem is that -C itself prints the nice progressbar, while -C2 (so
> we could save stdout to log and have stderr on console only) prints out
> progressbar info which is suitable in case you want to parse it from a
> GUI.

Ah, I see. Sucks. 

> > I guess the combination of -C <fd> to direct the progress bar to the
> > console plus StandardOutput=syslog+console would be pretty good. the
> > progress bar makes no sense in the logs anyway. 
> 
> Sure.
> 
> So - do you have a better idea than poking the e2fsprogs guys to add a
> new switch (or env var, etc.) that will turn the progressbar on fd != 0
> to something user-friendly?

Would be cool if we could convince them, but ideally even in some way
that we can just pass --progress-bar=/dev/console or so. i.e. take a
file name instead of an fd.

Karel?

Lennart

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