From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: mountstats Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:46:55 -0400 Message-ID: <1155581216.5656.3.camel@localhost> References: <44D90E78.4060006@us.ibm.com> <1155576129.5664.94.camel@localhost> <44E0C27F.4070304@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org Return-path: Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.4]:13236 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751055AbWHNSrL (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:47:11 -0400 To: "Steve French (smfltc)" In-Reply-To: <44E0C27F.4070304@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:35 -0500, Steve French (smfltc) wrote: > Namespaces are per process but superblocks are not. It could be > confusing to some users. Locating > these stats [only] in the perprocess information (alongside some truly > per-process stats) creates > the impression that the stats are those I/Os for that per-process for > that mount while > the stats displayed are the stats for the superblock (across all > processes that have the superblock > in the namespace). I realize that it would not really be possible to > show per-process/per-mount stats > but it seems odd that the per-superblock mountstats show up only here, > rather in a more intuitive > location(s) such as /proc/mountstats [as well]. I repeat: the stats are _NOT_ per superblock. They are per mountpoint. Cheers, Trond