Hi, On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:11:39PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Apr 17, 2002 21:41 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:07:19AM -0500, John Fraser wrote: > > > We are working on an application that needs to grab files put onto an ext3 > > > filesystem as soon as they are written. We've looked at lsof, and other > > > tools, and are having troubles finding just the right mechanism to tell when > > > a file has been completely written and the other process has closed the > > > file. > > > > No such interface exists, but you have the source, you could write one! > Well, see my post/patch yesterday on ext2-devel about adding transaction > handle IDs to ext3/JBD. I think this query was more about watching local logical file access patterns (open, write, close) than physical access. ext3 doesn't even see a file close when it happens, right now. Cheers, Stephen
