The problem to creating a wrapper in the manner sugegsted is that
any filesystems mounted or other stuff which uses the original device
must be stopped
and changed to start using the new pseudo device. I want something
which can be as
non intrusive as possible. Am looking @ Jens btrace :) ..
Thanks &Regards
-BD
On 9/23/05, Fawad Lateef <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/23/05, Block Device <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I need to trap _all_ the I/O going to each and every block device
> > in the system. I used jprobes to trap calls to generic_make_request.
> > Is this the correct/only place to do such a thing ?
> > Or do I have to monitor the q->make_request_fn for every device ?
> >
>
> Yes, generic_make_request or monitoring q->make_request_fn can trap
> the _all_ I/O tpo block devices but other approach might be a little
> bit odd/difficult but through that you can get every request to block
> device .... the approach is you create a block device and then create
> that block device as a wrapper on your device, now use your block
> device and in its request function (can alter the data and sectors
> etc) and calls generic_make_request for the original device on which
> you created wrapper .... So by doing this you can easily monitor
> requests (similar to this approach is used in LVM/RAID) ......
>
>
> --
> Fawad Lateef
>
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