hi francis, thanks for the hint! i must admit, that i underestimated the capabilities of inotify - maybe i didn`t give it another try for too long.... what i didn`t expect is that i can use it for adding watches for thousands and thousands of files. seems to work great and performs well. meanwhile, i came across systemtap and found this is quite suitable, too. regards roland > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: "Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> > Gesendet: 22.11.08 08:50:35 > An: devzero@xxxxxx > CC: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Betreff: Re: tracing at filesystem level > devzero@xxxxxx writes: > > > i`d like to be able to trace filesystem access at early boot time, > > i.e to see what files being opened/closed on early boot (and later > > on). > > > > one possible way to do it is using nfs-root, so we can trace it at > > the network or server level - but how can this be done without using > > network filesystem ? > > > > i came across tracefs > > (http://www.filesystems.org/docs/tracefs-fast04/tracefs.pdf) which > > looks very promising, but it seems it`s not actively maintained. > > > > isn`t there a standard way to do that with recent kernels ? i > > searched for a while but didn`t find something appropriate.... > > Wouldn't inotify be appropriate for this ? > > Francis > > _________________________________________________________________________ Sensationsangebot nur bis 30.11: WEB.DE FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL für nur 16,37 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.web.de/?ac=OM.AD.AD008K13805B7069a -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
