Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

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 started ignoring that almost immediately it was posted. He  
rejected too quickly too many workable solutions to basically  
functional backup. Perhaps Iain is a perfectionist, but I did not wish  
to follow the thread.

> ... 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
> for the programmer but there is also the problem that

Pardon me. I assumed that "files inside the directory" meant that foo  
would be be changed when foo/bar changed, thus monitoring grunt would  
reflect changes in grunt/foo/bar. I overlooked that a directory is not  
a file.

Stroller.