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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