From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC] Docs: mark admin-guide/iostats.rst as needing updates
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:02:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191018100256.75bb5c60@lwn.net> (raw)
This file tells us all about how 2.4 reported I/O statistics, which is less
than fully useful. Put a note at the top advising of this fact and
requesting some kind soul to bring things up to date.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
---
I'm thinking about beginning to sprinkle these around Documentation/ in
the hope that they inspire helpful people to improve the situation. It
works (I think?) for wikipedia, maybe we should give it a try...
Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
index 5d63b18bd6d1..2d1b1c15fd91 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
I/O statistics fields
=====================
+.. note::
+
+ This document contains a great deal of outdated information; please
+ consider helping out by updating it to match current reality.
+
Since 2.4.20 (and some versions before, with patches), and 2.5.45,
more extensive disk statistics have been introduced to help measure disk
activity. Tools such as ``sar`` and ``iostat`` typically interpret these and do
--
2.21.0
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