Re: [PATCH 0/7] nfsstat: adding -D/--diff-stat to nfsstat

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:35 -0400, david m. richter wrote:
> > Can I make one more attempt to interest someone in implementing the
> > --since=baseline-file approach?  It'd be fun, and would make some more
> > flexible use cases very simple.  You could still get a time interval:
> > 
> > 	nfsstat >tmp
> > 	sleep 30
> > 	nfsstat --since=tmp
> > 
> > or you could do other stuff:
> > 
> > 	nfsstat >tmp
> > 	run-my-weird-test-case-here
> > 	nfsstat --since=tmp

Exactly. Being able to zero out the stats is way more flexible than the
-D stuff...

> 	
> 	just curious: would you be satisfied if the --since file's ctime 
> were used as the beginning of the time interval?

What time interval? nfsstat doesn't output any time intervals, and I
can't see how these proposals introduce one.

Is it perhaps Bruce's choice of the word '--since' that is confusing?

Trond


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