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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sat,  2 Oct 2010 12:03:19 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] disturbing disk access
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> this gives me /dev/sdC0/^(fossil arenas isect) all many times

so it could be atime access.  try halting all the programs
previously listed and seeing if that doesn't stop disk
activity.

> where do you run this so that you obtain the following? My 'g', as far
> as I know, doesn't walk through directories... (???)

contrib quanstro/g.  the idea was shamelessly stolen from russ,
with the additional twist that directories passed as arguments
are recursively searched.  thus "g pattern" in /sys/src/cmd searches
only single-file commands; while "g pattern ." searches all commands.

- erik