On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Tom Metro <tmetro-...@vl.com> wrote: > Bill Bogstad wrote: > > You are correct. I was mistakenly thinking that inodes==blocks, which of > course they don't. > > I haven't looked at the inotify library in a while, but it isn't out of > the realm of possibility that in addition to the notification messages > Â identifying the inode, it may also identify the blocks or byte range > impacted by the I/O operation.
I checked the docs quickly and no such luck. In any case, it would have been more likely that inotify would inform you about byte ranges in the file that changed rather then blocks within the filesystem implementation. You could possibly use something like this to monitor files for backup through the filesytem rather then through the block device, but this would require monitoring all the directories on the filesystem. That is likely to be too expensive to do through the inotify system in the general case. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
