On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:19:48AM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > As a simple user without much knowledge of kernel internals, much less > so filesystems, couldn't something based on the same principle of > lsof+fam be used to handle these situations? Using inotify has been suggested before. That let the upper filesystem know when something changed on the lower filesystem. I think that, while it would work, it is not the right solution. Josef "Jeff" Sipek. -- Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them - Albert Einstein - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html