fileinfo_t

The fileinfo_t structure provides information about a file. The file to which an I/O corresponds is pointed to by args[2] in the start, done, wait-start, and wait-done probes. The presence of file information is contingent upon the filesystem providing this information when dispatching I/O requests. Some filesystems, especially third-party filesystems, might not provide this information. Also, I/O requests might emanate from a filesystem for which no file information exists. For example, any I/O to filesystem metadata will not be associated with any one file. Finally, some highly optimized filesystems might aggregate I/O from disjoint files into a single I/O request. In this case, the filesystem might provide the file information either for the file that represents the majority of the I/O or for the file that represents some of the I/O. Alternately, the filesystem might provide no file information at all in this case.

The definition of the fileinfo_t structure is as follows:

typedef struct fileinfo {
	string fi_name;                 /* name (basename of fi_pathname) */
	string fi_dirname;              /* directory (dirname of fi_pathname) */
	string fi_pathname;             /* full pathname */
	offset_t fi_offset;             /* offset within file */
	string fi_fs;                   /* filesystem */
	string fi_mount;                /* mount point of file system */
} fileinfo_t;

The fi_name field contains the name of the file but does not include any directory components. If no file information is associated with an I/O, the fi_name field will be set to the string <none>. In some rare cases, the pathname associated with a file might be unknown. In this case, the fi_name field will be set to the string <unknown>.

The fi_dirname field contains only the directory component of the file name. As with fi_name, this string may be set to <none> if no file information is present, or <unknown> if the pathname associated with the file is not known.

The fi_pathname field contains the full pathname to the file. As with fi_name, this string may be set to <none> if no file information is present, or <unknown> if the pathname associated with the file is not known.

The fi_offset field contains the offset within the file , or -1 if either file information is not present or if the offset is otherwise unspecified by the filesystem.