When I first added collectl support for lustre, I simply looked at a 
bunch of the stat files and focused on those fields that changed during 
file I/O operations since there is a lot of fields that never seem to do 
so.  On the MDS I only included 4, specifically close, getattr, reint 
and sync.  In revisiting that data I do see some non-zero counters, but 
also still don't see them changing when I'm doing a lot of I/O.  In 
particular I'm looking at a non-zero value for statfs but no matter what 
I do it doesn't change!  I've created a bunch of files, did an ls on the 
file system and tried doing a couple of greps.  Nothing makes it want to 
budge!  So my questions are what is this actually measuring, why isn't 
it changing and are there any other fields that might be of interest?
-mark

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