Re: IO stats in /proc/partitions

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Fri, 24 May 2002 10:56:32 +0100


On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:27:13PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > I rather send a complete backout patch for mainline instead. This format
> > has been used by the vendor (Red Hat, SuSE, etc..) kernels since 2.2 ages
> > and is used (if present) by the stock performance tools for linux
> > (i.e. syststat package, iostats
>
> Look, I just do not want to break some apps which read /proc/partitions.
> Thats it.

Umm, thos apps would have broken on any stock Red Hat/SuSE/Mandrake
installation of the last years!

> Look, changing the userlevel apps to at least know about the new format is
> not hard. And you can do that over time.

Well, the stock sysstat util works with this format now with the vendor
kernels, recent -ac and 2.4.19-pre. If you don't want this I can send
a backout patch - again only people using vendor kernel or maybe -ac
will have that feature. No big point.

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