Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11 | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:52:35 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 18:37 -0700, Rusty Lynch wrote:
> Looking into this a little more I realized that the lack of /proc > notifications (for processes coming and going) is a common problem anytime > a file is modified without going through the VFS. Other examples are > remote file changes on a mounted NFS partition, remote file changes on a > mounted cluster filesystem (like ocfs or gfs), and just about any virtual > file system where the kernel is adding/deleting/modifying files from below > the VFS.
Indeed it is. But none of those are anything that we care about (except maybe /proc).
The problem of changes on remote filesystems is solved by FAM.
Robert Love
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