I added a jfsstat tool to my jkstat package:

http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/jkstat.html

This was quite easy - once I had decided not to try and show all
45 (or so) statistics in a horizontal line of the table all at
once.

It's very neat being able to see what's going on!

And I implemented sorting on the table too. That's a nice feature,
something generally missing from many tools.

As Dan suggested, I filter out filesystems set to ignore.

I also filter out the aggregate (ie. ufs, zfs, nfs) statistics.

I'm not at all convinced that having the aggregate statistics
helps (and I wonder if there's a performance hit). Normally,
I'm interested in per-filesystem activity - so the aggregates
aren't useful. If I want them, I can get them by aggregating
the filesystem statistics. (This might differ from the aggregate
if things have been unmounted, but in that case you need to know
the full history to make sense of the numbers.)

Presumably the per-fstype statistics are there for a reason?
Is there one, because nothing is immediately obvious.

One useful aggregate I can think of is in the case of zfs,
where a per-pool statistic might be useful. (Tricky because
the pool has an associated filesystem.)

I also tried to filter per-zone (by parsing /etc/mnttab). This
worked less well than I expected, as:
 - lofs entries in /etc/mnttab don't have a zone flag
 - the lofs statistics seem only partial - most things seem to
go right through to the underlying filesystem.

Again, I wonder if the lofs statistics are worthwhile?

(I haven't actually tried zones on my test system yet. I'm
still working on this...)

-- 
-Peter Tribble
L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/



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