Re: [2.4.18] /proc/stat does not show disk_io stats for all IDE d isks

'Christoph Hellwig' (hch@infradead.org)
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 17:44:55 +0100


On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 08:20:24AM -0800, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> > Could you please tru 2.4.18-ac/2.4.19-ac?
>
> the SARD stuff from Alan's tree fixes this (in /proc/partitions though, but
> that's ok)
>
> the problem is that /proc/stat only checks major/minor combinations for
> majors 0-16 and minors 0-16. so if you have, say, hdc on major 22 then
> it won't show up in /proc/stat. Basically it's just done wrong :)
>
> SARD fixes this by tracking all the relevant disk info properly, but it's
> not in the mainline kernel :(

I guess it will be in 2.4.19..

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