Re: Looking for a file monitor

[Hareesh Nagarajan <hnagar2@gmail.com>]

Diego Calleja wrote:
> El Fri, 24 Feb 2006 02:06:27 -0600,
> Hareesh Nagarajan <hnagar2@gmail.com> escribió:
> 
> 
>> dnotify has been succeeded by inotify. check the link below:
>> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/README
> 
> IIRC, inotify is not the best thing for examining system-wide events.
> Monitoring of directories is not recursive (neither it should, i think)
> so to examine the whole system you would need to need thousands of
> watches.

Surely.

But if we want to keep a track of all the files that are opened, read, 
written or deleted (much like filemon; ``Filemon's timestamping feature 
will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens, 
and its status column tells you the outcome."), we can write a simple 
patch that makes a note of these events on the VFS layer, and then we 
could export this information to userspace, via relayfs. It wouldn't be 
too hard to code a relatively efficient implementation.

Hareesh