data block timestamp ?

Eric Sandeen sandeen at redhat.com
Mon Mar 8 17:31:03 UTC 2010


MirJafar Ali wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am interested in knowing the sequence of datablocks request/serviced
> by ext2 filesystem to analyse
> the disk IO pattern.
> 
> Can someone suggest if there are some software that can do this ?

Depending on what you want, blktrace may be helpful, if you want to know
when IO happens and to which blocks.

-Eric

> Thanks
> 
> Mir




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