[PATCH RFC] Docs: mark admin-guide/iostats.rst as needing updates

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Fri Oct 18 2019 - 12:02:59 EST


This file tells us all about how 2.4 reported I/O statistics, which is less
than fully useful. Put a note at the top advising of this fact and
requesting some kind soul to bring things up to date.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
---

I'm thinking about beginning to sprinkle these around Documentation/ in
the hope that they inspire helpful people to improve the situation. It
works (I think?) for wikipedia, maybe we should give it a try...

Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
index 5d63b18bd6d1..2d1b1c15fd91 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/iostats.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
I/O statistics fields
=====================

+.. note::
+
+ This document contains a great deal of outdated information; please
+ consider helping out by updating it to match current reality.
+
Since 2.4.20 (and some versions before, with patches), and 2.5.45,
more extensive disk statistics have been introduced to help measure disk
activity. Tools such as ``sar`` and ``iostat`` typically interpret these and do
--
2.21.0