Subject: Disk statistics patch
From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 16:23:40 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Announcing a small kernel patch to provide the disk statistics for
rpc.rstatd and hence perfmeter.  Here's the LSM:

Title        = Kernel disk statistics patch
Version      = 0.1
Desc1        = Patch for kernels >= 0.99.14y to provide functional
Desc2        = disk statistics in the /proc/stat filesystem.  The
Desc3        = statistics are automatically available to the 'perf'
Desc4        = tool via the /proc filesystem.
Author       = Karl Keyte
AuthorEmail  = [email-masked]
Maintainer   = Karl Keyte
MaintEmail   = [email-masked]
Site1        = sunsite.unc.edu
Path1        = ~pub/Linux/Incoming
File1        = linux-1.0-diskstat.patch.tar.gz
FileSize1    = 1092
Required1    = Kernel 0.99.14y or newer.  Patches directly on
Required2    = to Kernel 1.0 but easy to apply to other kernels.
CopyPolicy1  = With credit to author maintained, otherwise
CopyPolicy2  = unrestricted.
Keywords     = proc stat disk statistics kernel
Comment1     = Fully functional only on systems with 1-4 disk
Comment2     = all of the same type, e.g. not mixed AT and SCSI
Comment3     = disks.
RelFiles1    = linux-1.0.tar.gz
Entered      = 14th Match 1994
EnteredBy    = Karl Keyte