Based on kernel version 2.6.26. Page generated on 2008-07-16 21:12 EST.
1 What: /sys/block/<disk>/stat 2 Date: February 2008 3 Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan[AT]redhat[DOT]com> 4 Description: 5 The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O 6 statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields: 7 1 - reads completed succesfully 8 2 - reads merged 9 3 - sectors read 10 4 - time spent reading (ms) 11 5 - writes completed 12 6 - writes merged 13 7 - sectors written 14 8 - time spent writing (ms) 15 9 - I/Os currently in progress 16 10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms) 17 11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms) 18 For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt 19 20 21 What: /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat 22 Date: February 2008 23 Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan[AT]redhat[DOT]com> 24 Description: 25 The /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat files display the 26 I/O statistics of partition <part>. The format is the 27 same as the above-written /sys/block/<disk>/stat 28 format.