On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:20:06PM +1000, Rief, Jacob wrote:
> Hi to everybody,
> I would like to announce a patch for rsync which can be useful
> to a few of us.
>
> Since rsync can not see modifications made to the file-tree, it is
> not suitable to keep two or more file-trees in sync in realtime.
> It can take quite a long time to traverse huge file-trees, so it
> not possible to start rsync for example, once a minute.
>
> To add these features I have written a kernel-module for Linux-2.2.x which
> exports modified files to an application. I have patched the rsync sources
> to interact with this kernel module.
Hi,
I am just wondering if the functionality of fam and imon,
an event bases file change notification module and daemon that SGI have
ported from IRIX to Linux. The main problems that you would have with using
rsync with fam is that it only provides change events, no details and as it
is event bases the aplication needs to run all the time to listen for
events. See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/
In any case is there some documentation giving more details on your kernel
module, it sounds like it may have more applications than just rsync.
--
Horms
