From: David Brownell When drives go offline, e.g. usb-storage disconnect, the upper layers don't behave very intelligently yet: ext3 over scsi keeps retrying reads, logging three lines for each error: 10:58:31 scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device 10:58:31 EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #18089296 offset 0 10:58:31 10:59:47 EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #18089296 offset 0 This patch shrinks that log spam by the trivial third, getting rid of those needless blank lines. It's not clear to me why the "no such device" errors don't immediately make ext3 (or is it the block layer?) give up ... maybe someone else can make Linux not retry after those errors. Signed-off-by: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/fs/ext3/namei.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/namei.c~reduce-ext3-log-spamming-blank-lines fs/ext3/namei.c --- 25/fs/ext3/namei.c~reduce-ext3-log-spamming-blank-lines Thu Dec 9 13:07:11 2004 +++ 25-akpm/fs/ext3/namei.c Thu Dec 9 13:07:11 2004 @@ -872,7 +872,7 @@ restart: if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) { /* read error, skip block & hope for the best */ ext3_error(sb, __FUNCTION__, "reading directory #%lu " - "offset %lu\n", dir->i_ino, block); + "offset %lu", dir->i_ino, block); brelse(bh); goto next; } _