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Subject: Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions
To: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 01:30:19 +0100 (BST)
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> Perhaps, but I had the opposite experience. I noticed by accident
> that iostat (as included in Debian) suddenly had working extended
> statistics. So there are *certainly* tools that get fixed by
> 2.4.19-pre7. I was pleasantly surprised.

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