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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4bd9ea539129 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +What: /sys/block/<disk>/stat +Date: February 2008 +Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> +Description: + The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O + statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields: + 1 - reads completed succesfully + 2 - reads merged + 3 - sectors read + 4 - time spent reading (ms) + 5 - writes completed + 6 - writes merged + 7 - sectors written + 8 - time spent writing (ms) + 9 - I/Os currently in progress + 10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms) + 11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms) + For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt + + +What: /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat +Date: February 2008 +Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> +Description: + The /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat files display the + I/O statistics of partition <part>. The format is the + same as the above-written /sys/block/<disk>/stat + format. |