2009/2/3 Dan Nelson <dnel...@allantgroup.com> > In the last episode (Feb 03), Sandra Kachelmann said: > > I have an NFS fileserver and would like to figure out which files are > > being read/written to. Is there something to find that out? Something > > similar to samba's 'smbstatus' command. > > The best you can do currently is run tcpdump/wireshark and watch the remote > file operations as they happen... NFS doesn't access files by filename, > but > by NFS filehandle (basically device+inode number), so a remote client first > looks up the filename to get the filehandle, and all accesses are done via > the filehandle at that point. Theoretically, one could write a dtrace > script that watches calls to nfs_namei, nfsrv_read, and nfsrv_write, and > then matches read/write ops with the filenames that were looked up > beforehand.
Solaris NFS has a logging option, which does exactly what Sandra is asking for. It's al reason why I prefer to use Solaris for NFS servers. F. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
