Hello Richard!

> I've been working on merging the Joyent arcstat enhancements with some of my
> own and am now to the point where it is time to broaden the requirements
> gathering. The result is to be merged into the illumos tree.

Great news!

> 1. Should there be flag compatibility with vmstat, iostat, mpstat, and
> friends?

Don't bother.  I find that I need to look at the man page anyway
if I want to do anything that goes beyond -i 1. :-)

> 2. What is missing?

Nothing obvious to me.

> 3. Is it ok if the man page explains the meanings of each field, even though 
> it
> might be many pages long?

Yes please!!

> 4. Is there a common subset of columns that are regularly used that would 
> justify
> a shortcut option? Or do we even need shortcuts? (eg -x)

No.  Anything I need more than 1-2 times I wil turn into a shell
alias anyway ("alias zlist zfs list -tall -o mounted,mountpoint,name" :-).

> 5. Who wants to help with this little project?

My first reaction was ENOTIME. :-(  What kind of help do you need?


Regards -- Volker
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