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authorDavid P Hilton <david.hilton.p@gmail.com>2013-02-20 16:44:28 -0700
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2013-04-29 15:18:50 +0200
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iostats.txt: add easy-to-find description for field 6
iostats.txt has a merged description of fields 2 and 6, but it's not obvious. This patch adds a field 6, pointing to the merged description of field 6 in field 2. Signed-off-by: David Hilton <david.hilton.p@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ Field 4 -- # of milliseconds spent reading
measured from __make_request() to end_that_request_last()).
Field 5 -- # of writes completed
This is the total number of writes completed successfully.
+Field 6 -- # of writes merged
+ See the description of field 2.
Field 7 -- # of sectors written
This is the total number of sectors written successfully.
Field 8 -- # of milliseconds spent writing