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