Re: Does btrace dump actual i/o data?

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blktrace does not support dumping a request's data. But it seems that
you can use other tools in your case. E.g.,  if it is a user-space
process writing to a fake file, then you can use  "strace" to capture
complete arguments of every system call.

HTH,
Vasily

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to reverse engineer some device communication protocols....
> Basically this device shows up as a usb drive, and commands are written to a
> fake file in the root directory. Responses are read from the same fake file.
>
> Does btrace have the ability to dump the data being written and read from
> the device, or just aggregate i/o statistics?
>
>
>
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> Rochester Institute of Technology
> College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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