From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 15:12:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273043561.24807.40.camel@troll> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273042474.20354.17.camel@localhost>
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, 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 :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-05 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-05 6:54 [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes Iain Buchanan
2010-05-05 7:12 ` Bill Kenworthy [this message]
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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