Re: Logging disk accesses.

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 08:04:48 +0200 (MET DST)

linker@nightshade.ml.org wrote:
>
>
> Wow!
>
> It would be astonishing to have this collect access patters for a few
> weeks. Then have a process that finds sets of blocks that are often read
> togeather, then finaly a defragger that takes block orders.

I wrote the kernel support, Someone go ahead and write the other
pieces. This is what it is intended to do. (The logger is easy:
tail -10000f /proc/blkdev_log >> /var/log/blkdev_log
)
Roger.

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