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From: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tracing at filesystem level
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:50:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r654qjwp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515126840@web.de> (devzero@web.de's message of "Fri\, 21 Nov 2008 16\:53\:40 +0100")

devzero@web.de 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


  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-22  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-21 15:53 tracing at filesystem level devzero
2008-11-22  7:50 ` Francis Moreau [this message]
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2008-11-22 13:58 devzero

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