procfs-diskstats (1243B)
1What: /proc/diskstats 2Date: February 2008 3Contact: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> 4Description: 5 The /proc/diskstats file displays the I/O statistics 6 of block devices. Each line contains the following 14 7 fields: 8 9 == =================================== 10 1 major number 11 2 minor mumber 12 3 device name 13 4 reads completed successfully 14 5 reads merged 15 6 sectors read 16 7 time spent reading (ms) 17 8 writes completed 18 9 writes merged 19 10 sectors written 20 11 time spent writing (ms) 21 12 I/Os currently in progress 22 13 time spent doing I/Os (ms) 23 14 weighted time spent doing I/Os (ms) 24 == =================================== 25 26 Kernel 4.18+ appends four more fields for discard 27 tracking putting the total at 18: 28 29 == =================================== 30 15 discards completed successfully 31 16 discards merged 32 17 sectors discarded 33 18 time spent discarding 34 == =================================== 35 36 Kernel 5.5+ appends two more fields for flush requests: 37 38 == ===================================== 39 19 flush requests completed successfully 40 20 time spent flushing 41 == ===================================== 42 43 For more details refer to Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst