David Woodhouse wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 16:44 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> It would be nice to have the kernel export disk access via a socket or
> something rather than the currently available debug option, which is to
> dump to dmesg which then triggers log writes which triggers more
> messages and fail occurs.
Does blktrace trigger log writes?
shouldn't... but then it doesn't tell you what file was written to,
either (just blocks) because it's working lower down the stack. It
gives you a process name though at least.
One of the things I've found fairly often is applications which re-write
the same litle log or config file over and over, with unchanged
contents. It'd be nice if any disktop-like thing could check for that.
But that would require knowledge of what files were being accessed.
-Eric