Monitor a filesystem?

[Jeffrey Ross]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Cameron Simpson wrote:
>   
>> On 04Jan2008 19:26, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at 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