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Subject: Re: acd(4) is no longer listed among other disk devices in
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In message <20040730142537.GH9911@dan.emsphone.com>, Dan Nelson writes:

>> Somebody needs to fix vmstat(8), iostat(8) and systat(8) to look at the
>> stats inside GEOM instead of the driver stats.  It's not very hard to
>> change, it just takes some work.
>
>Just as long as we don't lose stats for non-disk devices like pass and sa.
>It might be easier to just fix acd.

We won't loose stats for non-disk devices.

And it wouldn't be "fix acd", it would be "kludge acd".

Can we try to get into the habbit of doing things right instead of just
banging a rusty nail in a nearby post and tie things to it with pieces
of string ?

Please ?

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