Hi, > IIRC, blktrace is designed to monitor such I/O events at the block > level. Try it :) Ok I will try that. I was thinking about it and something that made it clear to me is : "Since its writing to the actual disk through /dev/sdaX the kernel knows about it, since its the one that is translating the writes from the /dev/sdaX file to the actual disk" Regards. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies