No human readable message with g_vfs

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 3 13:14:36 UTC 2011


On 12/29/10 11:32, David Demelier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sometimes when I use my external harddrive I get these awful message :
>
> g_vfs_done():da1[WRITE(offset=34590720, length=65536)]error = 5
> /var/log/messages.1.bz2:Dec 21 18:36:07 Abricot kernel:
> g_vfs_done():da1[WRITE(offset=34656256, length=65536)]error = 5
> /var/log/messages.1.bz2:Dec 21 18:36:07 Abricot kernel:
> g_vfs_done():da1[WRITE(offset=34721792, length=65536)]error = 5
> /var/log/messages.1.bz2:Dec 21 18:36:07 Abricot kernel:
> g_vfs_done():da1[WRITE(offset=34787328, length=65536)]error = 5
> /var/log/messages.1.bz2:Dec 21 18:36:07 Abricot kernel:
> g_vfs_done():da1[WRITE(offset=34852864, length=65536)]error = 5
> /var/log/messages.1.bz2:Dec 21 22:50:28 Abricot kernel:
> g_vfs_done():ufs/public[WRITE(offset=244271529984, length=16384)]error = 5
> /var/log/messages.1.bz2:Dec 21 22:50:28 Abricot kernel:
> g_vfs_done():ufs/public[READ(offset=244563705856, length=131072)]error = 5
> /var/log/messages.5.bz2:Nov 29 16:36:52 Abricot kernel:
> g_vfs_done():ufs/public[READ(offset=232718991360, length=131072)]error = 5
>
> I think for a lambda user these are absolutely not understandable. I

Would a better message be "WRITE error on da0, offset=34590720. 
length=65536, errno=5"?




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