[ILUG] disk write hunt

[Kenn Humborg]

>   maybe poll with either `lsof -o' or `lsof -s' and
>   watch which file(s) are open for writing and whose
>   offset (-o) or size (-s) is "constantly" changing?

Ahh - but Linux doesn't provide enough info to do 'lsof -o'.

I submitted a kernel patch to make the "size" of the
/proc/PID/fd/X symlinks be the offset, but it was rejected 
on the grounds that some userland depends on the current
hard-coded size of these symlinks.

Which sounds completely stupid to me.

Sigh...

Later,
Kenn