2002-08-15 01:20:49

by Rick Lindsley

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Subject: anybody porting 2.4.19 i/o stat patches to 2.5?

These patches allowed you to collect I/O information on a per-partition
basis, as well as removing the restriction about only monitoring the
first sixteen disks. Is anybody working on porting this to 2.5? If not,
I'll do it.

These 2.4.19 patches did not, it appear, provide any means (through
/proc, for example, as in the original patches) of retrieving the
information even though code was added to collect it. Any reason why not?

Rick


2002-08-15 15:13:37

by Randy.Dunlap

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Subject: Re: anybody porting 2.4.19 i/o stat patches to 2.5?

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Rick Lindsley wrote:

| These patches allowed you to collect I/O information on a per-partition
| basis, as well as removing the restriction about only monitoring the
| first sixteen disks. Is anybody working on porting this to 2.5? If not,
| I'll do it.
|
| These 2.4.19 patches did not, it appear, provide any means (through
| /proc, for example, as in the original patches) of retrieving the
| information even though code was added to collect it. Any reason why not?

I've started doing it, although I'm currently at LinuxWorld
and won't have more time for it until next week.

Don't know about the second part..

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~Randy