logging for hotfiles.

[MirJafar Ali]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Sundar Nagarajan <sundar.personal at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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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Hello Sundar,

Thanks a lot. This information was extremely useful.

Mir
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