[LAD] [OT] bash vs disk activity

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:45:59AM +0200, Esben Stien wrote:
> Ross Vandegrift <ross at kallisti.us> writes:
> 
> > "iostat -x" gives you detailed I/O statistics on each partition
> 
> ..which is not really what you want. What you want is io statistics on
> the thread.

The use-case is to time when a umount will complete flushing data to
disk so the disk can be removed.  There isn't really such a thing as
"per-thread" i/o - all the actual disk writes are coming from pdflush
already.

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross at kallisti.us

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