Re: Too many programs called nfsiostat.

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

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
>