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Date:      Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:52:19 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
To:        axl@iafrica.com (Sheldon Hearn)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what was the old devstat interface's dk_wds?
Message-ID:  <199901131652.JAA51655@panzer.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <92363.916241941@axl.noc.iafrica.com> from Sheldon Hearn at "Jan 13, 99 05:39:01 pm"

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Sheldon Hearn wrote...
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:01:57 MST, "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
> 
> > There are a couple of other ports that use the devstat code, in
> > addition to systat(1), vmstat(8), and iostat(8).  Check out xperfmon,
> > and xsysinfo. think they both support devstat.
> 
> Thanks, Kenneth.
> 
> Looking at systat gave me enough to figure out what was needed. So much
> so that I shamelessly borrowed its code and changed all of 5 lines. ;)

Just remember to give credit if you swipe code.

> One question. If buildmatch is passed "da" as match_str, what devices
> will I end up selecting? Just SCSI and IDE disk drives? I ask because I
> don't really know what "Direct Access devices" does and doesn't include.

You'll end up selecting any sort of disk drive.  That includes SCSI and IDE
disks, and any disks that happen to be on a different type of interface.

It doesn't include optical disks, though.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com

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