Re: [very noob] Experimenting with the virtual FS

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Hi...

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Simon <turner25@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My question is:  if i read on VFS, is this the correct keyword for
> what I intend to do?  Is there anything else that is closely related
> that I would need to read?  (i mean specific to my project, i already
> have links to more general kernel dev).  And is there any such kind of
> project that I could look into, reuse and extend possibly?

Things you can check besides inotify:
- FUSE (filesystem on user space)
- kprobe ( to intercept certain kernel function and do something about it)
- device mapper.... to create a layer just above the device layer.
software RAID, for example, is built upon device mapper.

regards,

Mulyadi.

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