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To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] blkstat
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> writes:

> I have made a simple tool to measure idle and busy time for
> block devices.

It would be better to put the new statistic into iostat/sard
instead of requiring new tools. Then eventually it would all
end up in distributions too and could be easily used everywhere.

-Andi