Information about the package, blktrace, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The blktrace package is designed for, Utilities for performing block layer IO tracing in the linux.
Package Name:
blktrace
Summary:
Utilities for performing block layer IO tracing in the linux
Description:
blktrace is a block layer IO tracing mechanism which provides detailed information about request queue operations to user space. This package includes both blktrace, a utility which gathers event traces from the kernel; and blkparse, a utility which formats trace data collected by blktrace. You should install the blktrace package if you need to gather detailed information about IO patterns.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.1
Release:
7.el6
Size:
768 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the blktrace package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install blktrace
This command will install blktrace on the server.
yum remove blktrace
This command will un-install blktrace on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove blktrace, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove blktrace
This command will un-install blktrace on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove blktrace when using the -y flag.
yum update blktrace
This command will update blktrace to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove blktrace, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update blktrace
This command will update blktrace to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove blktrace when using the -y flag.
yum info blktrace
This command will show you core information about the blktrace package.
yum deplist blktrace
This command will show you the dependencies for blktrace. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update blktrace
This command will check if there is an update waiting on blktrace. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.