Re: [Patch for review] BSD accounting IO stats

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 15:14:13 EST


On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 03:11:27PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:

> It may be easier to do this at write(2) time, making the
> assumption that most IO done there will eventually hit
> the filesystem.

but for lots of loads that's not true, consider the case of temporary
files which usually never hit the disk before being unlinked


--cw
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