John, Robert, others, I'm working with the ohsm team on a new kernel module and we need a way as an example to be notified of every file creation event on a filesystem so we can determine which storage tier a new file should be allocating data blocks from. I believe inotify needs a watch item for every directory it is watching, so in theory we could walk the directory structure somehow and register every directory with inotify. That seems like an excessive amount of overhead for what seems like a simple to implement need. So a couple questions: Can inotify currently be told to monitor an entire mount point? Would a patch to enable inotify to do so be entertained? If so, what about one that added the ability to just the kernel API. (We have no need of it in userspace at present.) Is there an alternate pre-existing linux kernel solution? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - <http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/tng_whitepaper_fpe.html> The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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
