Bug 147566 – iostat doesn't show tape devices

Bug 147566 - iostat doesn't show tape devices

Summary:	iostat doesn't show tape devices

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	sysstat (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Ivana Varekova
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2005-02-09 07:46 EST by brent robson
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-05-06 09:21:59 EDT
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Description brent robson 2005-02-09 07:46:19 EST

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Description of problem:
iostat will only show disk devices, and does not
list tape devices.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sysstat-4.0.7-4.EL3.3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  iostat -x /dev/st0
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Actual Results:  [root@unbutest db]# iostat -x /dev/st0
Linux 2.4.21-4.ELsmp (unbutest.nsg.stercomm.com)        02/09/05

avg-cpu:  %user   %nice    %sys   %idle
           0.20    0.00    1.53   98.27

Device:    rrqm/s wrqm/s   r/s   w/s  rsec/s  wsec/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await  svctm  %util



Expected Results:  should have seen statistics for /dev/st0

Additional info:

Comment 1 Neil Horman 2005-05-06 09:21:59 EDT

This is NOTABUG.  iostat is only meant to show statistics for block devices, and
/dev/st0 is a character device:

[nhorman@hmsdreadnought nhorman]$ ls -l /dev/st0
crw-rw----    1 root     disk       9,   0 Jun 24  2004 /dev/st0

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