From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] nfsstat: adding -D/--diff-stat to nfsstat
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:52:06 -0400
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On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:46:24PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Exactly. Being able to zero out the stats is way more flexible than the
> -D stuff...

It's definitely a better primitive for building scripts.  I think
-D/--sleep/whatever is what I'd personally end up using most of the time
for quick troubleshooting, if only because it's less typing.

> Is it perhaps Bruce's choice of the word '--since' that is confusing?

I'm not sure what'd be better: --previous? --baseline?

--b.

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