From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 02:36:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020521003604.GA400@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17899v-0003Cl-00@the-village.bc.nu> <Pine.LNX.3.96.1020520141820.29156A-100000@gatekeeper.tmr.com>
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 02:19:48PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Pretty much every vendor shipped the /proc/partitions changes and
> > has tools that will look for them. Its annoying to change stuff but
> > long term /proc/partitions is the wrong place for disk stats
> Changes belong in 2.5, /proc/partitions is the wrong place, but it's
> also the place the tools expect. I hope that's not going to change in the
> stable kernel.
You misunderstand.
Everybody agrees that /proc/partitions is the wrong place.
Up to now these statistics have not been part of any official
kernel, stable or not.
However, someone wanted to introduce them for the first time
in 2.4.19 and put them in /proc/partitions. That is a really bad idea,
especially when they will be somewhere else in 2.5.
Andries
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-21 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-04 19:59 IO stats in /proc/partitions Andries.Brouwer
2002-05-04 20:35 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-05-04 21:25 ` Mark Hahn
2002-05-05 1:04 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-06 14:04 ` Jakob Østergaard
2002-05-04 21:35 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-05-05 1:08 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-05 1:18 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-05-05 16:55 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-05 18:10 ` M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
2002-05-05 23:51 ` Thomas Zimmerman
2002-05-04 22:53 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-04 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-05-15 21:39 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-05-15 23:18 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2002-05-16 0:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-20 18:19 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-05-21 0:36 ` Guest section DW [this message]
2002-05-21 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-16 7:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-23 20:27 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-05-24 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-05 1:38 Nivedita Singhvi
2002-03-12 15:34 Jean-Eric Cuendet
2002-03-12 21:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-03-12 22:48 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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