is it possible to monitor a file system to see what files have been open (and closed), and if so, how?
The device in this case would be a USB CD-rom drive and the filesystem would be the disk in it.
TIA, Jeff
On 04Jan2008 19:26, Jeffrey Ross jeff@bubble.org wrote:
is it possible to monitor a file system to see what files have been open (and closed), and if so, how? The device in this case would be a USB CD-rom drive and the filesystem would be the disk in it.
The inotify system may do the trick for you. See "man 7 inotify" for details. I expect there must be some handy utilities around that use it.
Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 04Jan2008 19:26, Jeffrey Ross jeff@bubble.org wrote:
is it possible to monitor a file system to see what files have been open (and closed), and if so, how? The device in this case would be a USB CD-rom drive and the filesystem would be the disk in it.
The inotify system may do the trick for you. See "man 7 inotify" for details. I expect there must be some handy utilities around that use it.
Would that really work? I was under the impression that inotify was using file system attributes and since a CD is read-only the attributes can't be updated/modified.
Ed
Ed Greshko wrote:
Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 04Jan2008 19:26, Jeffrey Ross jeff@bubble.org wrote:
is it possible to monitor a file system to see what files have been open (and closed), and if so, how? The device in this case would be a USB CD-rom drive and the filesystem would be the disk in it.
The inotify system may do the trick for you. See "man 7 inotify" for details. I expect there must be some handy utilities around that use it.
Would that really work? I was under the impression that inotify was using file system attributes and since a CD is read-only the attributes can't be updated/modified.
Ed
knowing that it was only one process (and maybe its children) that would be accessing the drive I took a different tact, instead I use "strace -f -o /tmp/outfile -e trace=file <program name>" that got me the output I was looking for.
Thanks!
Jeff
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