On Wednesday 28 October 2009 03:50:56 Maxim Wexler wrote: > >> So, since in the digital world, things don't "just happen", can > >> someone enlighten me, or anyone else who's interested, in the > >> connection between the scrollback buffer and usb-storage, if any? > > > > There isn't a connection. Why do you think there is one? > > Because, before the scrollback buffer was configured, when I ran > $dmesg|less the output, ie more that 2700 lines, that came up in the > console, all started with 'usb-storage'. After configuring the > scrollback buffer, there may have been a few usb-console lines but > certainly not 2700, and nothing else, one right after another. > > I understand it makes no sense to say there is a connection but that > is what I saw. > > It may have been intermittant. I notice with successive reboots of > 2.6.30, /dev/sdb1,2, which contain /home and /var are sometimes not > found and not mounted; sometimes not found but mounted anyways; > sometimes found and mounted as per /etc/fstab. If it happens enough > times, I suppose a pattern will emerge but I haven't seen it yet.
I think the presence or absence of your usb-storage debug output is related to stuff being found or not found, and has nothing whatsoever to do with scrollback. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
