Re: PATCH against 2.2.13: disk io stats in /proc/stat

Martin Dalecki (dalecki@cs.net.pl)
Fri, 24 Dec 1999 02:34:57 +0100

arijort@valinux.com wrote:
>
> So regardless of /proc/stat, which Stephen Tweedie's
> sard utility relies on, what are people using to get
> basic low level disk io stats?
>
> What /proc/stat purports to provide is what I'm looking
> for, but that information doesn't seem to be reliable,
> nor is there enough of it.

Whatever it currently is and whoever relyes on it - it is
broken by design. Therefore it should go away.

BTW> 99,999999% of users don't care about intricated ways of
pseudotuing the system. They just expect it to work out of the
box - which is right so.

--
	Marcin Dalecki


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