gstat-rs

An enhanced replacement for FreeBSD's gstat(8) utility.

Overview

gstat is awesome, but it has some limitations that come into play on larger systems. gstat-rs is designed to work better even on servers with hundreds of disks. The key differences are:

• gstat-rs supports sorting the disks using the '+', '-', and 'r' keys, and the "--sort" and "-r" command line options.
• gstat-rs can enable/disable columns at any time using the insert and delete keys. gstat can only do that at startup, and only for certain infrequently used columns.
• If the screen has enough space, gstat-rs will display multiple disks side by side.
• gstat-rs can pause the display without exiting the program.
• gstat-rs's settings are automatically persisted to a config file.
• gstat-rs does not support batch mode (-bBC) output. If you want that kind of information, use iostat(8) instead.
• gstat-rs does not display GEOM consumers (-c), but it can easily be added if there's any demand for that feature.

Screenshot

gstat-rs demonstrating side-by-side mode, sorting by %busy.

Minimum Supported Rust Version (MSRV)

gstat-rs is supported on Rust 1.52.0 and higher. It's MSRV will not be changed in the future without bumping the major or minor version.

License

gstat-rs is primarily distributed under the terms of the BSD 2-clause license.

See LICENSE for details.

Sponsorship

gstat-rs is sponsored by Axcient, inc.