logging for hotfiles.

[Sundar Nagarajan]

Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:35 AM, MirJafar Ali <mirjafarali at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> I am interesting in collecting data for file system analysis. I use Ubuntu
>> and it has ext3 file system. Does filesystem keep
>> track of how many times simple file operations were performed ( along with
>> the timestamp ) i.e. open, read and write ?
> 

inotify can do this. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify.
inotify has python bindings (pyinotify, inotify-tools) and perl 
(Linux::inotify) apart from a C-interface.

Another interesting article on inotify is 
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ubuntu-inotify/index.html


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Sundar Nagarajan
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