Re: File system monitoring

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@private
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 09:10:53 PDT

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    On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:10:13 -0000, Gerd M <gerd_m1977@private>  said:
    > I need to port a module that implements some sort of file system tracing via 
    > overriding syscalls from 2.4 to 2.6.
    > It's purpose is to report every change (rm, creat, rename, mv) of the 
    > filesystem to a daemon that mirrors the whole filesystem in a database.
    
    Don't forget read()/write()/truncate()....
    
    One boggles at the thought of handling mmap() correctly, as tracking changes to
    files would involve very ugly frobbing of the VM code to track dirtied memory
    pages....
    
    
    
    



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