Hi,
I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file
system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want.
Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere. I don't want
to register a whole bunch of files to watch, I just want to watch an
entire moun
Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently
to inotify. There is also gammin/fam.
BillK
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file
> system. I've been looking at inotify, bu
On 5 May 2010, at 07:54, Iain Buchanan wrote:
...
I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file
system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I
want.
Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere. I don't want
to register a whole bunch of
On 5 May, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file
> system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want.
>
> Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere. I don't want
> to register a whole bunch of files
Am 05.05.2010 15:34, schrieb Stroller:
>
> On 5 May 2010, at 07:54, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>> ...
>> I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file
>> system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want.
>>
>> Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs a
On 5 May 2010, at 18:24, Florian Philipp wrote:
...
man inotify(7):
... When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the
directory itself, and for files inside the directory.
...
To repeat my comment on Iain's original "backup to a cold-swap drive"
thread ...
Sorry, I starte
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 17:02 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Might be I've just asked a similar question on the ZSH mailing list.
> Please have a look at inotifywatch from the sys-fs/inotify-tools
> package. It can watch a directory tree recursively.
it does look interesting, thanks. I would stil
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently
> to inotify. There is also gammin/fam.
dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it would
prevent external media from being unmounted. dnotify al
On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:12 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently
> > to inotify. There is also gammin/fam.
>
> dnotify locks the files or directories you want to watch, so it woul
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 18:35 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> On 5 May 2010, at 18:24, Florian Philipp wrote:
> >> ...
> >> man inotify(7):
> >> ... When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the
> >> directory itself, and for files inside the directory.
> >> ...
> >
> > To repeat my comm
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This bug
> ridden zombie is still around?
thanks for the heads-up - I guess I should leave FAM to plan B?
--
Iain Buchanan
I am a friend of the working man, and I
On Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 01:33 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > oh god... fam... that crap caused me so much pain over the years. This
> > bug ridden zombie is still around?
>
> thanks for the heads-up - I guess I should leave FAM to plan B?
Pl
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 08:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> but it's an angle to follow. I wonder how max_user_watches would handle
> being 100k or more... no doubt you just need some RAM?!
>
> thanks,
To answer my own questions, I'm now trying this:
# echo 10 >/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_
On 6 May 2010, at 00:51, Iain Buchanan wrote:
...
... Inotify has two drawbacks which make it hard or even impossible
to use for Iain's use case:
a) It does not work recursively which means that you have to
create a
new handle for each subdirectory. Of course, this only means more
work
fo
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