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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 12:02:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [patch] Scalable statistics counters with /proc reporting
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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> ...
> Also the /proc-based implementation is really ugly.  It should be moved
> over to the seq_file interface at least, a simple ramfs-style own
> filesystem ("stats" filesystem type) would be the cleanest solution.

I'd suggest that it be just a single stat counter per /proc
file.  A simple sprintf is fine for that.

If it's necessary to write a new filesystem to just export a bunch
of integers to userspace then something is seriously wrong.
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