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Old 19th September 2008
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lsof can shed some light on which process is writing to the file.

# lsof /journal/file/here

That's a start -- it will give you command and PID (and some other info).

It's installed by default on most GNU/Linux systems, and can be installed from ports on FreeBSD. (Also, there is fstat on FBSD.)
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