Re: Too many programs called nfsiostat.

[Sebastien Godard <sysstat@orange.fr>]

On 01/22/2014 02:12 PM, Steve Dickson wrote:
>
> On 21/01/14 19:24, NeilBrown wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:40:01 -0500 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 20, 2014, at 10:45 PM, NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> (This time without the typo in Chuck's address - sorry).
>>>>
>>>> Not quite a year ago I wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:46:39 +1000 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> it seems that in 2010, a program called nfsiostat was added to the sysstat
>>>>> package (http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/)
>>>>>
>>>>> This is unfortunate because in 2008 a program called nfsiostat was added to
>>>>> the nfs-utils package.
>>>>>     (https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/nfs-utils/1.2.7/)
>>>>>
>>>>> The default install locations seem to be different (/usr/bin vs /usr/sbin),
>>>>> so packagers would not immediately notice.
>>>>>
>>>>> This seems like something that should be "fixed".
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions what a good "fix" should look like?
>>>>>
>>>>> NeilBrown
>>>>
>>>> No suggestions were forthcoming.
>>>> So I have a suggestion.
>>>> I propose we rename the "nfsiostat" in the "sysstat" package to
>>>> "nfsio-sysstat" and the "nfsiostat" in "nfs-utils" to
>>>> "nfs-utils-iostat".
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone object?  If not I'll send off patches shortly :-)
>>> What does the sysstat version do?  do we need two programs, or can they be merged?  Or can one be dropped?
>>>
>> It reads /proc/self/mountstats and reports some numbers, not unlike the
>> nfs-utils version.
>>
>> $ /usr/sbin/nfsiostat
>>
>> eli:/home mounted on /mnt:
>>
>>     op/s		rpc bklog
>>     3.55	   0.00
>> read:            ops/s		   kB/s		  kB/op		retrans		avg RTT (ms)	avg exe (ms)
>> 		  0.000	  0.000	  0.000       0 (0.0%)	  0.000	  0.000
>> write:           ops/s		   kB/s		  kB/op		retrans		avg RTT (ms)	avg exe (ms)
>> 		  0.000	  0.000	  0.000       0 (0.0%)	  0.000	  0.000
>> $ /usr/bin/nfsiostat
>> Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop (notabene.brown) 	01/22/2014 	_x86_64_	(8 CPU)
>>
>> Filesystem:               rkB_nor/s    wkB_nor/s    rkB_dir/s    wkB_dir/s    rkB_svr/s    wkB_svr/s     ops/s    rops/s    wops/s
>> eli:/home                      0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00         0.00      0.00      0.00      0.00
>>
>>
>> The man page for the sysstat version is:
>>
>> http://www.makelinux.com/man/1/N/nfsiostat
> Is this version still actively being maintain?
>
> steved.
>
>> while man page for nfs-utils version is:
>>
>> http://linux.die.net/man/8/nfsiostat
>>
>> NeilBrown
>>
>
The nfsiostat command from the sysstat package is actually no longer 
actively being maintained.
So I think that it can be merged with that from nfs-utils package.

Regards,

-- 
Sebastien GODARD <sysstat [at] orange.fr>
http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/