On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 02:26 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jan 8 2007 19:33, Josef Sipek wrote: > >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. > > Because inotify is not recursive yet? Even if it was, using inotify would be inherently racy (what if two writes start at the same time) - 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
