On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 08:07:19AM -0500, John Fraser wrote: > > In most cases it will be Samba users putting the files onto the ext3 > filesystem that we need to process immediatitely, and we will also need to > allow NFS users to put files onto the ext3 filesystem. In both cases, we > need low-level knowledge of when the file is written completely so we can > grab the sucker right away. > You can hack Samba so that it notifies you when a file has closed; however, in the case of the case of NFS, there is no concept of "file being closed", since NFS is a stateless protocol. The best you could do is "file hasn't been modified for n seconds". - Ted
