misc/67687: iostat does not provide read vs. write statistics for block devices

[R.P. Aditya]

>Number:         67687
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       iostat does not provide read vs. write statistics for block devices
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 07 20:00:42 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     R.P. Aditya
>Release:        5-CURRENT
>Organization:
Grot Free
>Environment:
FreeBSD tiny.grot.org 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Sun Apr 25 08:01:53 GMT 2004     aditya at tiny.lan.grot.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TINY  i386
>Description:
iostat can provide an aggregate number for transactions per second and Bytes per transaction for a given device, but if it is a block device, is there a counter accessible from iostat or elsewhere that I can see how much is read transactions versus write transactions?
>How-To-Repeat:
iostat -K -d -I 1
>Fix:
Don Nelson has provided some patches to add a "Solaris-style -x flag to iostat" that I will attach to this PR shortly.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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