From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
hpa@zytor.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 10:56:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020524105632.A7658@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020516085022.B14643@infradead.org> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205231723450.3295-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:27:13PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > I rather send a complete backout patch for mainline instead. This format
> > has been used by the vendor (Red Hat, SuSE, etc..) kernels since 2.2 ages
> > and is used (if present) by the stock performance tools for linux
> > (i.e. syststat package, iostats
>
> Look, I just do not want to break some apps which read /proc/partitions.
> Thats it.
Umm, thos apps would have broken on any stock Red Hat/SuSE/Mandrake
installation of the last years!
> Look, changing the userlevel apps to at least know about the new format is
> not hard. And you can do that over time.
Well, the stock sysstat util works with this format now with the vendor
kernels, recent -ac and 2.4.19-pre. If you don't want this I can send
a backout patch - again only people using vendor kernel or maybe -ac
will have that feature. No big point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-24 9:57 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
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 [this message]
-- 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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