Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions | Date | Sat, 4 May 2002 23:53:06 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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