Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.43.3-1 Severity: wishlist 1. Storm hits, power fails. 2. When power restored, boot computer. Notice some messages about clearing orphaned inodes fly by. 3. Now check for any place on the computer where those messages might be stored. # find /var/log -type f -mtime -1|xargs zgrep -i inode /var/log/kern.log:Oct 1 02:42:10 jidanni5 kernel: [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) /var/log/syslog:Oct 1 02:42:10 jidanni5 kernel: [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) /var/log/messages:Oct 1 02:42:10 jidanni5 kernel: [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) I.e., no not there.
I bet even the Linux experts have no way to see these messages later (without attaching a second printing(!) terminal.) Can't there be a tiny place in the gigabytes of memory these days, where initramfs messages, the same ones we see flying by upon boot, are stored, and then, after the system is fully running, write those messages to a file in /var/log? Please reassign this bug (after adding ideas) to (probably ?) the kernel. Semi/related/older projects: $ dlocate /var/log/fsck initscripts: /var/log/fsck $ ls -l /var/log/fsck total 8 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 122 2014-07-12 checkfs -rw-r----- 1 root adm 200 2014-07-12 checkroot I.e., stopped working years ago. $ dlocate bootlog initscripts: /etc/init.d/bootlogs systemd: /lib/systemd/system/bootlogd.service systemd: /lib/systemd/system/bootlogs.service systemd: /lib/systemd/system/stop-bootlogd-single.service systemd: /lib/systemd/system/stop-bootlogd.service which I recall won't help in this case either. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers experimental APT policy: (990, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.43.3-1 ii libblkid1 2.28.2-1 ii libc6 2.24-3 ii libcomerr2 1.43.3-1 ii libss2 1.43.3-1 ii libuuid1 2.28.2-1 ii util-linux 2.28.2-1 e2fsprogs recommends no packages. Versions of packages e2fsprogs suggests: pn e2fsck-static <none> pn fuse2fs <none> pn gpart <none> ii parted 3.2-15 -- no debconf information
