Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Mon, 20 May 2002 14:19:48 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 16 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 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

Changes belong in 2.5, /proc/partitions is the wrong place, but it's
also the place the tools expect. I hope that's not going to change in the
stable kernel.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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