Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:02:20 -0600 | From | Hareesh Nagarajan <> | Subject | Re: Looking for a file monitor |
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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.
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