Re: File system monitoring

From: Gerd M (gerd_m1977@private)
Date: Thu Apr 15 2004 - 09:20:43 PDT

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    Valdis.Kletnieks@private wrote:
    > > It's purpose is to report every change (rm, creat, rename, mv) of the
    > > filesystem to a daemon that mirrors the whole filesystem in a database.
    >
    >Don't forget read()/write()/truncate()....
    >
    >One boggles at the thought of handling mmap() correctly, as tracking 
    >changes to
    >files would involve very ugly frobbing of the VM code to track dirtied 
    >memory
    >pages....
    In my case i don't need to bother about read/writes/truncate because the 
    daemon handles only the structure (content) of the filesystem. The only 
    thing it needs to know is the up to date content of every directory.
    
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