Identifying writes to NFS

[Matthew Booth]

On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:56 -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:35:28PM +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> > I'd like to be able to reliably recognise a PATH record which refers to
> > an NFS mount. It seems that dev=00:xx would be related to the answer.
> > However, each mount seems to have its own value of xx, and other mounts
> > not backed by a block device, eg /proc and /dev, also have dev=00:xx. 
> > 
> > The answer can't be related to a single system, as the solution has to
> > be rolled out across a large estate with a variety of nfs mounts on
> > particular servers.
> > 
> > Any ideas? Thanks,
> 
> man statfs, look at f_type field there.

Looking at this again, this field doesn't appear to be in the audit
data. Am I missing it? It's not possible to invoke statfs to determine
this information as the system receiving the data is remote.

Matt
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