On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Marko Rauhamaa > <marko.rauhamaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Amir Goldstein: >>> This series is a prep work for using fanotify to monitor all events in >>> a file system with a single watch. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> I am posting this WIP to get feedback on the idea and to find out if >>> there are any users out there interested in the improved fanotify >>> capabilities and/or in the super block monitoring use case. >> >> My employer certainly is in need of monitoring a whole filesystem. We >> have noticed that namespaces evade monitoring via FAN_MARK_MOUNT. I was >> thinking something like a FAN_MARK_FILESYSTEM would be needed. >> > > I have a POC of monitoring entire file system, while filtering to namespace > only the events that should be visible to its mounts. > I need to get the patches into shape and shake them a bit, then > I will post them and I am hoping that others could test them for their > use case as well. > Marko, The super block watch patches are available on my git tree at: https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/fanotify_sb-4.9 I won't bother to post them to the list unless someone shows interest. Note that beyond the ability to watch a file system, they also provide all the legacy intotify events (create/remove), so maybe that's also useful to you guys. Anyway, if you are interested and willing to give them a try please send me feedback. Thanks, Amir. -- 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
