On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Jerry Tan wrote: >> >> How does it know if files are added/removed/modified in the user's home >> directory? >> > There is a daemon called gamin, which will accept > add/remove/modified information for file from FAM (one module of > kernel). and invoke tracker function to index these files again. > please refer to http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ > >> What is the behavior like if the home directory is accessed over a network? >> > Just like a normal local file system.
I really don't get it. Sun used to be "The Network Is The Computer" company. At least it still was on March 20, 2006 as proven by this blog entry from Jonathan Schwartz: "http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_network_is_the_computer";. Have things changed now? Has Sun become the "Every Computer Is A Personal Computer" company? Please tell me it is not so! Assuming that Sun still is "The Network Is The Computer" company, can you explain to me how this local daemon called gamin will know if one of the thousands of other computers on the network has changed a file in the network server directory where my home directory resides? Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
