From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, hpa@zytor.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Subject: Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 23:53:06 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1748Oo-0000Ub-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200205041959.g44JxQa20044.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> from "Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl" at May 04, 2002 09:59:26 PM
> Earlier I noticed that RedHat did put some statistics in
> /proc/partitions. That was bad, but I assumed that it was
> their laziness, being too busy to do a proper job.
It was put there in the 2.2 era after discussion with various folks. Its
been in most vendor kernels for about four years.
> On the other hand, disk statistics should not be in
> /proc/partitions. They should be in /proc/diskstatistics.
> I see a heading today "rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge"
> "wsect wuse running use aveq". No doubt next year we'll
> want different statistics. So /proc/diskstatistics should
> start with a header line including a version field.
The stats have been unchanged for years too. As to version lines
why ? This is lets mke /proc XML hell again
> Please keep these disk statistics apart from /proc/partitions.
It has to contain each partiiton anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-04 22:34 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 [this message]
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
-- 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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