Monitor a filesystem?

[Cameron Simpson]

On 04Jan2008 19:26, Jeffrey Ross <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
> is it possible to monitor a file system to see what files have been open 
> (and closed), and if so, how?
> The device in this case would be a USB CD-rom drive and the filesystem 
> would be the disk in it.

The inotify system may do the trick for you. See "man 7 inotify" for details.
I expect there must be some handy utilities around that use it.
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