Kernel updates from SuSE have the hooks for iostat to give info similar to
Solaris or BSD. This was placed into 2.4.16 and beyond as I recall. This
kernel patch was questionable in the past. The patch is also located on
the web, there is a maintainer in France as I recall. Google it if you do
not have the updated Kernel, but I would recommend that route as there are
several things that went into 2.4.18
You might send a note to bernd or Jens at SuSE to check on updates.
Regards,
Jon
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On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, John P Taylor wrote:
> We are having some problems at the moment geting iostat to output data
> from the partitons defined to the system (e.g iostat -x /dev/dasdb).
> This works OK on Redhat 7.2 and the reason for this seems to be that
> /proc/partitions contains rather more information on RedHat than SLES7.
> We tried applying linux-2.4.0-sard.patch to SLES7:
>
> --- linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c.~1~ Mon Jul 17 14:53:34 2000
> --- linux/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c.~1~ Mon Jul 17 14:53:30 2000
> --- linux/fs/partitions/check.c.~1~ Mon Jul 17 14:53:31 2000
> --- linux/include/linux/blkdev.h.~1~ Mon Jul 17 14:53:38 2000
> --- linux/include/linux/genhd.h.~1~ Mon Jul 17 14:53:28 2000
> --- linux/drivers/block/genhd.c.orig Fri Sep 7 12:05:30 2001
>
> linux/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c.~1~ patches cleanly but the others do
> not. Are we going about this the wrong way, is there an alternative
> utility that provides the same level of detail. Any suggestions welome!
>
> John P Taylor
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
