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38 a choice of ``cat /sys/block/hda/stat`` or ``grep 'hda ' /proc/diskstats``.
41 if you are watching a known, small set of disks.  ``/proc/diskstats`` may
42 be a better choice if you are watching a large number of disks because
55 overflow and wrap). Wrapping might eventually occur on a very busy
128     Block layer combines flush requests and executes at most one at a time.
141 almost a non-issue.  When the statistics are read, the per-CPU counters
153 As a result, some statistic information disappeared. The translation from
154 a disk address relative to a partition to the disk address relative to
157 in 2.4.  Consequently, you'll see a different statistics output on 2.6+ for
175 Note that since the address is translated to a disk-relative one, and no
180 a subtle distinction that is probably uninteresting for most cases.
183 reads/writes before merges for partitions and after for disks. Since a
184 typical workload usually contains a lot of successive and adjacent requests,
207 ``/proc/stat`` take a very different format from those in ``/proc/partitions``