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Message-ID: <20191018100256.75bb5c60@lwn.net> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:02:56 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> To: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: [PATCH RFC] Docs: mark admin-guide/iostats.rst as needing updates This file tells us all about how 2.4 reported I/O statistics, which is less than fully useful. Put a note at the top advising of this fact and requesting some kind soul to bring things up to date. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> --- I'm thinking about beginning to sprinkle these around Documentation/ in the hope that they inspire helpful people to improve the situation. It works (I think?) for wikipedia, maybe we should give it a try... Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst index 5d63b18bd6d1..2d1b1c15fd91 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst @@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ I/O statistics fields ===================== +.. note:: + + This document contains a great deal of outdated information; please + consider helping out by updating it to match current reality. + Since 2.4.20 (and some versions before, with patches), and 2.5.45, more extensive disk statistics have been introduced to help measure disk activity. Tools such as ``sar`` and ``iostat`` typically interpret these and do -- 2.21.0
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