Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions | Date | Thu, 16 May 2002 01:30:19 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Perhaps, but I had the opposite experience. I noticed by accident > that iostat (as included in Debian) suddenly had working extended > statistics. So there are *certainly* tools that get fixed by > 2.4.19-pre7. I was pleasantly surprised.
Pretty much every vendor shipped the /proc/partitions changes and has tools that will look for them. Its annoying to change stuff but long term /proc/partitions is the wrong place for disk stats - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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