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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 16:24:34 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273042474.20354.17.camel@localhost> (raw)

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 mount.  When a file is changed (ie. a write operation occurs), I
then want to add that file or fd to a list in RAM.  That's all.

I know this may be a lot of data, considering streams and devices, but I
can filter out /dev, /proc, etc. and just focus on "real" files.

Is there anything that can do this?

thanks :)
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means
it's going to be up all night.
		-- Steven Wright




             reply	other threads:[~2010-05-05 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-05  6:54 Iain Buchanan [this message]
2010-05-05  7:12 ` [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes Bill Kenworthy
2010-05-05 23:29   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-05-05 23:33     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-05-05 23:51       ` Iain Buchanan
2010-05-05 23:59         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-05-05 13:34 ` Stroller
2010-05-05 17:24   ` Florian Philipp
2010-05-05 17:35     ` Stroller
2010-05-05 23:51       ` Iain Buchanan
2010-05-06 14:22         ` Stroller
2010-05-05 15:02 ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-05-05 23:24   ` Iain Buchanan
2010-05-06  2:17     ` Iain Buchanan

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