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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:51:59PM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > > what exactly needs "drivenames", and does it care about nfs?
> >=20
> > Nothing needs drivenames right now but it may be useful to know what
> > drives are on the system, I am thinking of perhaps a tape drive that
> > was not attached/powered during boot but later gets powered up and the
> > scsi bus rescanned to attach it - it could be hard to tell if a tape
> > device is known about by the kernel without poking random device names
> > to see if something responds.  The nfs was there just for completeness.
>=20
> do you mean it's only for human investigation?
>=20
> i don't think of any usage for which inclusion of "nfs" is useful.

I can! Any tool which wants to know what io stat names are available.=20

I think a better thing to do is rename the variable to "iostatnames". Then=
=20
it makes a lot of sense to include nfs in the list of all iostat-providing=
=20
sources.

Take care,

Bill

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