On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:07:51AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > One is to use bind mounts. i.e. I effectively do > mount --bind $HOME/.config $HOME/.config > and ask for events from the newly created vfsmnt. > This will not catch changes made through file descriptors that were opened > before I did the mount, or through hard links from some other directory > tree. But for a particular use-case that might not be a problem. I'm missing what the extra vfsmount gets you here. The problems seem just the same as if you don't have one. Oh, wait, I see, it's that the file descriptors are associated with vfsmounts, not just dentries. Hm. --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html