On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:54 +0400, Vasily Novikov wrote: > > > 3. I read the discussion about how to define paths to scan but anyway. > > > We would prefer to have global listener that was defined in the first > > > version of the interface and mark unnecessary mount points with > > > persistent ignore flags. > > > > Yeah, but according to Eric there was fierce opposition against global mode > > and hence he dropped it. I personally think anti-global mode arguments are not > > that solid but what can you do. > > > > I am pursuing another path of trying to add support for mount marks which > > automatically propagate to sub-mounts. That way you can mark root with a mount > > mark and when a new filesystem appears under it it will automatically inherit > > that mark. I have a proof of concept patch which works but needs some > > refactoring to comply with fanotify locking rules. Hopefully it will be > > possible to do it in which case I will post it for review. > > It looks good. I can help you with testing the patch. I've got about 20 patches in http://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify.git/shortlog/refs/heads/for-next Which I hope addresses everything people have been asking for (except Tvrtko's mount point inheritance wish) -Eric -- 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
