Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-48,: Re: disks stats through /proc

# Re: disks stats through /proc

Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Thu, 3 Dec 1998 12:48:24 -0800 (PST)

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> I forgot to add that this, IMHO, should be in /proc/partitions rather than
> /proc/stat.

Yes, this is all a good idea, but you should still keep spindle stats-
then somebody can finally replace that bogus iostat.c I've had lying round
for years...

>
> Regards,
> Tigran
>
> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
>
> > IMHO, this should be done on a fine-grained (partition level) rather than
> > coarse (drive) level. There is enough information in
> > ll_rw_blk.c/add_request() to do it now but, of course, kernel_stat
> > structure will have to be seriously modified.
> >
> > There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux
> > development. I.e. the quality is too high and the speed is too high, in
> > other words, I can implement this disk stat feature, but I bet someone else
> > has already done it and is just about to release his patch to Linus soon...
>
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