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[linux-2.6] / Documentation / ABI / testing / procfs-diskstats
1 What:           /proc/diskstats
2 Date:           February 2008
3 Contact:        Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
4 Description:
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