On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Nicolas Ross <rossnick-lists at cybercat.ca> wrote: >>> In the meen time, I'd still like to find a tool to know what files are >>> requeted to the filesystem and what ones are being waited for... >>> >> >> atop and iotop are tools that do that...when the kernel has been >> appropriately patched or the kernel is of an appropriate version... > > I did used these utilities, while it can help see what processes are > generating IO, it doesn't show what files on the file system are being asked > or waited for. > > Basicly, what I'm searching is an equivalent for fs_usage on Mac OS X, or > tcpdump, but on a bloc device... Not sure what those do, but lsof should show what files are open, and 'strace -p process_id' would show the system calls issued by a process. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com