> Dan Hollis gave me the hint that there exists a welldefined API for
> disk performance-measurement under POSIX.
>
> Has anybody access to this definition or might give me hints how a
> POSIX compliant implementation of this patch should look like?
The closest thing to this I can find is Annex G of the 1996 edition of
POSIX.1, which discusses performance metrics. This annex simply says
what should be measured, and does not give any sort of API.
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