Where is the trace format?
Here is the trace format. • Q: Are there any tools to help me get started? A: Yes, they are available here. • Q: There are three files per hour. What are they? A: • sum: a summary of the operation counts. These are formatted to look like the output from nfsstat on a particular system, now obsolete. It would be better to reformat these in a regular, easy-to-parse manner. • txt.gz: the output from nfsdump. This is what people want. • gz.ck: the output of cksum for the corresponding txt.gz. Useful for making sure that the download wasn’t corrupted somehow. • Q: What is the difference between “count” and “size”? A: The names for the various fields in the NFS XDR messages are not always intuitive! And to make matters worse, my mappings of those names to the names used in the output of nfsdump are clumsy in places. Three particular causes of confusion: • size/count: in read and write responses, “size” is the size of the file operated on, and “count” is the number of bytes actually read/writt
