Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 14:29:56 -0200 From: "Giovanni P. Tirloni" <gpt@tirloni.org> To: Cornelis Swanepoel <rools.ster@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Filesystem monitoring question Message-ID: <437CB004.2000401@tirloni.org> In-Reply-To: <a9f55af40511170707n3dd70429t48d85acf9b3be5f4@mail.gmail.com> References: <a9f55af40511170707n3dd70429t48d85acf9b3be5f4@mail.gmail.com>
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Cornelis Swanepoel wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 6.0 box with a partition that is accessible to a number of > clients via SMB and NFS. > > I would like to monitor activity on this partition so that every time a > write to it is completed, my C program is run (which stats the file and > stores some info about it in a database amongst other things) > > My question is: What do I need to learn in order to construct a trigger for > my code? > > If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it. Using kqueue you can monitor a file/directory for changes and have it trigger something when that event happens. But you want to monitor you whole partition.. perhaps intercept some syscalls ? -- Giovanni P. Tirloni http://blog.tirloni.org
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