Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Aug 2002 00:33:25 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] conditionally re-enable per-disk stats, convert to seq_file |
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 11:18:56PM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote: > But why in /proc/partitions ? > Maybe /proc/partitions can go away eventually with all info available > under driverfs or so. But for the time being, /proc/partitions is used, > and some changes are planned to make identification of the devices > involved easier. > It is really ugly to stuff a lot of garbage into a file just because > it happens to exist already. If you want disk statistics, why not > put it in /proc/diskstatistics?
Because it's where existing tools expect it. I agree with you that we want a nicer interface for 2.6, but give the userbase some time to prepare for a new interface.
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