From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 5 06:55:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E84916A41F for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 06:55:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jebc@c4solutions.net) Received: from outbound.mailhop.org (outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A8C43D49 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 06:55:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jebc@c4solutions.net) Received: from pcp0012210017pcs.blairblvd.tn.nash.comcast.net ([69.245.61.169] helo=ares.c4solutions.net) by outbound.mailhop.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.51) id 1ECAst-0003a6-8n; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:55:15 -0400 Received: from [10.10.1.115] (jeb-64.internal.c4solutions.net [10.10.1.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ares.c4solutions.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6E9ADAF7; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 01:55:11 -0500 (CDT) X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS.org X-Originating-IP: 69.245.61.169 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.org (see http://www.mailhop.org/outbound/abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: jebutk Message-ID: <431BEBD1.8030001@c4solutions.net> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 01:55:13 -0500 From: Jeb Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050816) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <51974.1125902771@phk.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <51974.1125902771@phk.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel newb -- read/write to a local file from in kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 06:55:16 -0000 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In the spirit of education I won't tell you "how to" but only "where > to look": ktrace, coredumps and accounting all writes to files > from the kernel. Wow -- don't I feel stupid. After 2 days of searching, I couldn't see the forest for the trees. (and 4 hours of sleep doesn't help) Thanks you for your time on this question and for all your other work on FreeBSD! Jeb (cc'ing the list for a record of my stupidity)