raw filesystem counters

[Andriy Gapon]

On 12/02/2018 07:55, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2018-Feb-11 21:06:12 +0200, "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>> Is there any way to access raw disk counters similar to those found on
>> Linux in:
>> /sys/class/block/<device>/stat
>>
>> Preferably also by accessing such a virtual file and not by using iostat /
>> zpool iostat which are already pre-processing counters and need to be run
>> constantly to get accurate real-time estimates.
> 
> For the raw disk data, have a look at the statistics functions in
> libgeom(3).  You can use the source code for gstat(8) to get a better idea
> how to drive it.

Or maybe devstat(3).

> I don't know of any published API for vdev-level ZFS statistics and,
> unfortunately, "zpool iostat" only supports "humanized" output, which makes
> it difficult to use them as input to further monitoring.  There are some
> ARC statistics under sysctl kstat.zfs.misc
> 


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Andriy Gapon