E4RAT.CONF(5)

NAME
/etc/e4rat.conf - configuration file for the e4rat toolset

DESCRIPTION
e4rat.conf is the configuration file all e4rat binaries. It allows to replace default parameters of the tools.

FILE FORMAT
The file is based on INFO format which is similar to C/C++. For more information see http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/doc/html/boost_propertytree/parsers.html.

An option is declared like this: option1 value1

Options can either be declared globally and/or below a section. Derived from its executable suffix name, each binary owns its own section. Values beyond this section applies to the binary only.

collect {
    option value

}

OPTIONS
e4rat has a simple logging structure. Each event has a priority bit. The following priorities exist:
    1 errors
    2 warnings
    4 task statistics
    8 information about a single step
   16 debug message

verbose
    set verbose bit mask of messages to be displayed. [Default: 7]

loglevel
    set bit mask of messages send to log_target. [Default: 3]

log_target
    set target path where log messages should be written to. Default value is /dev/kmsg. It sends the message to Kernel's log ring buffer. (See also dmesg(1)) Set <log_target> to 'syslog' to send the message to the syslog daemon.

init
    Set an alternative init process instead of /sbin/init

startup_log_file
    set path to startup log file. [Default: /var/lib/e4rat/startup.log]

  Specific for e4rat-collect

timeout
    After the expiration of this value in seconds e4rat-collect automatically quits collecting. Timeout takes only into account when e4rat-collect was executed as init process. [Default: 120]

ext4_only
    Restrict file watches to ext4 filesystem types only. [Default: true]

exclude_open_files
    exclude files which are already opened. [Default: true]

  Specific for e4rat-realloc

defrag_mode
    set default rearrangement mode of e4rat-realloc. [Default: auto]
        auto choose mode automatically
        prealloc use user-space pre-allocate ioctl
        locality-group create files in locality group
        tld create files in top level directory

AUTHOR
Written by Andreas Rid and Gundolf Kiefer.

REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to Andreas Rid <conso at users.sf.net>.

SEE ALSO
e4rat-collect(8), e4rat-realloc(8), e4rat-preload(8)