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From: "Steve French (smfltc)" <smfltc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: mountstats
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:35:43 -0500
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To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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Trond Myklebust wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 17:21 -0500, Steve French wrote:
>  
>
>>Why are mountstats per process (e.g. "cat /proc/1/mountstats")?
>>    
>>
>
>Namespaces are per-process, hence so are the per-mountpoint mountstats.
>
>Cheers,
>  Trond
>
>  
>
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].