Re: [Ganglia-developers] new disk-alive metric needed

2004-01-11 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 06:51:06AM -0800, Federico Sacerdoti wrote: > Brooks, > Sorry for the late reply. I'm glad to get some BSD feedback on my design. I > am suprised that the OS lies about writing so much, but I guess the error > from flushing the dirty pages have no way to propagate to the wri

Re: [Ganglia-developers] new disk-alive metric needed

2004-01-11 Thread Federico Sacerdoti
Brooks, Sorry for the late reply. I'm glad to get some BSD feedback on my design. I am suprised that the OS lies about writing so much, but I guess the error from flushing the dirty pages have no way to propagate to the writer process since the two operations happen on different time scales. I lik