From: Steve Dickson Subject: Re: Understanding iostat-ms output Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:51:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4791F248.9040904@RedHat.com> References: <2a29d0a3c209d9488b0a3e8263c53e38@swip.net> <1200675753.7781.32.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <6FBCD100-A02A-4CA5-8329-A801846B14BC@oracle.com> <1200679596.7781.37.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <004A35A1-29F1-4C3E-AD1A-B42EEF5B8C22@oracle.com> <1200683992.13348.4.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <89AD69AD-9039-42C7-992C-05E1908791DD@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Trond Myklebust , "linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org list" To: Chuck Lever Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44936 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752284AbYASMxd (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:53:33 -0500 In-Reply-To: <89AD69AD-9039-42C7-992C-05E1908791DD@oracle.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Chuck Lever wrote: > Hi Trond- > > On Jan 18, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 13:11 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: >>> The plan is to include these scripts in nfs-utils during 2CQ08, after >>> the IPv6 work is complete. There is some additional work to be done, >>> such as composing man pages for both scripts, adding appropriate >>> dependency information in the nfs-utils build scripts, and so on. >> >> I'm of two minds about that. I agree that we need an iostat-like utility >> in nfs-utils, but I'm wary about also adding in a new language >> dependency on python. > > > Steve has already agreed to include the Python versions. However, if it > presents a challenge, it would be fairly trivial to rewrite these > scripts in C. Personally I think Python is fine... but let me look into it to how painful the integration is and what dependencies are needed. steved.