2.6 diskstats and 4096 sector block devices?

[Jeff Johnson]

Greetings,

I am analyzing output in /proc/diskstats for block devices that have a 
4096B physical and logical sector size. 4KN or 4K-native disk drives.

8      33 sdc1 1289 0 10312 5893 3258606 53 1668254992 16804002 31 
583987 16807101

Fields 3 and 7 are sectors read and written respectively. For operations 
on a 4KN device should fields 3 and 7 be interpreted as number of 4K 
sectors written (total transferred = N * 8) or is each 4K sector 
operation reflected as 8 ticks to N?

I am expecting 1MB transfers to the device and using 'delta[field7] / 
delta[field5]' getting 128 which would point to diskstats handling 
everything in terms of 512B operations.

To multiply by 8 or not to multiply by 8, that is the question.. :-)

Thanks,

--Jeff

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