Hi Greg, On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Look for: int inotifytools_watch_recursively (char const *path, int events) on http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/api/inotifytools_8h.html > > So a couple questions: > > Can inotify currently be told to monitor an entire mount point? > May be the above could help. > 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? > Is the mapping functionality for (inotifytools_watch_recursively) exported in the kernel. It would really be great if we hear from the experts. Kindly suggest. And correct me If I am gone wrong somewhere. > 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 > we can specify the mount point i suppose to watch 11:29 PM this was the last release 1 January 2008: inotify-tools 3.13 released. Changes: Fix: `--timefmt' option to inotifywait doesn't work (broken in 3.12) http://inotify-tools.sourceforge.net/ will it support the new kernel Regards, Sandeep. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "fscops" group. > To post to this group, send email to fscops@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fscops+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fscops?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- 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
