Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:27:13PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > I rather send a complete backout patch for mainline instead.  This format
> > has been used by the vendor (Red Hat, SuSE, etc..) kernels since 2.2 ages
> > and is used (if present) by the stock performance tools for linux
> > (i.e. syststat package, iostats
> 
> Look, I just do not want to break some apps which read /proc/partitions.
> Thats it.

Umm, thos apps would have broken on any stock Red Hat/SuSE/Mandrake
installation of the last years!

> Look, changing the userlevel apps to at least know about the new format is
> not hard. And you can do that over time.

Well, the stock sysstat util works with this format now with the vendor
kernels, recent -ac and 2.4.19-pre.  If you don't want this I can send
a backout patch - again only people using vendor kernel or maybe -ac
will have that feature.  No big point.