On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:47:00AM +0800, Adam Lee wrote: > > > > Without knowing other ways to find information, I was thinking it would be > > really nice to have a way to see which files or directories grew or shrank > > since some point in the past. Would it be possible to get the kernel to tell > > me when files were opened for writing and closed so I could record the size > > difference? > > Will Inotify help? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/inotify.7.html > It is pretty much what I want to do, the problem with it is that it doesn't appear to be recursive. I'd like to just put a watch on root, and get events for the entire filesystem, not just that directory. From playing with this for a couple minutes, it looks like I'd have to walk the entire filesystem setting watches on every directory. So while it is very cool for what it does, I don't think it will help me out much. Is doing something with ld_preload to get in the way of every open call the only way to do this? _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
