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1 What: /sys/block/<disk>/stat
2 Date: February 2008
3 Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
4 Description:
5 The /sys/block/<disk>/stat files displays the I/O
6 statistics of disk <disk>. They contain 11 fields:
7 1 - reads completed succesfully
8 2 - reads merged
9 3 - sectors read
10 4 - time spent reading (ms)
11 5 - writes completed
12 6 - writes merged
13 7 - sectors written
14 8 - time spent writing (ms)
15 9 - I/Os currently in progress
16 10 - time spent doing I/Os (ms)
17 11 - weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms)
18 For more details refer Documentation/iostats.txt
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21 What: /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat
22 Date: February 2008
23 Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
24 Description:
25 The /sys/block/<disk>/<part>/stat files display the
26 I/O statistics of partition <part>. The format is the
27 same as the above-written /sys/block/<disk>/stat
28 format.
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31 What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/format
32 Date: June 2008
33 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
34 Description:
35 Metadata format for integrity capable block device.
36 E.g. T10-DIF-TYPE1-CRC.
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39 What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/read_verify
40 Date: June 2008
41 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
42 Description:
43 Indicates whether the block layer should verify the
44 integrity of read requests serviced by devices that
45 support sending integrity metadata.
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48 What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/tag_size
49 Date: June 2008
50 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
51 Description:
52 Number of bytes of integrity tag space available per
53 512 bytes of data.
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56 What: /sys/block/<disk>/integrity/write_generate
57 Date: June 2008
58 Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
59 Description:
60 Indicates whether the block layer should automatically
61 generate checksums for write requests bound for
62 devices that support receiving integrity metadata.