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authorJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>2008-02-08 05:10:56 -0500
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-02-08 06:42:11 -0500
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Enhanced partition statistics: documentation update
Update the documentation to reflect the change in userspace interface. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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1What: /proc/diskstats
2Date: February 2008
3Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
4Description:
5 The /proc/diskstats file displays the I/O statistics
6 of block devices. Each line contains the following 14
7 fields:
8 1 - major number
9 2 - minor mumber
10 3 - device name
11 4 - reads completed succesfully
12 5 - reads merged
13 6 - sectors read
14 7 - time spent reading (ms)
15 8 - writes completed
16 9 - writes merged
17 10 - sectors written
18 11 - time spent writing (ms)
19 12 - I/Os currently in progress
20 13 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
21 14 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
22 For more details refer to Documentation/iostats.txt