[TriLUG] Other ways to get to iostat data?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Jason Watts wrote:

> Does anyone have any insight on how/were iostat is
> pulling its data?

2.4 kernel /proc/partitions

(the first line has headers r???? for read values, w???? for 
write values

2.6 kernel /proc/diskstats

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/iostats.txt

Joe

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