[geeks] "Filemon" for Unix

[Scott Howard]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:59:44PM -0500, Matthew Braun wrote:
> I was wondering if there was some Unix-y equivalent to the Windows 
> "filemon" tool 
> (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml). While there 
> was an attempt to make a Linux-only version, it appears to be defunct 
> due to lack of backwards compatibility in the kernel.

Won't help you at the moment - especially not for OS X - but Solaris
10's dTrace will allow you to do this.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/

  Scott