From: Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Ashish Khurange <ashishk@it.iitb.ac.in>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: get vfsmount from dentry
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:45:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142196339.4954.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <441485C5.4090900@it.iitb.ac.in>
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 02:04 +0530, Ashish Khurange wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
>
> >mkdir /tmp/1
> >mkdir /tmp/2
> >mkdir /tmp/3
> >mount --bind /tmp/2 /tmp/1
> >mkdir /tmp/1/a
> >umount /tmp/1
> >mount --bind /tmp/3 /tmp/1
> >mkdir /tmp/1/a
> >umount /tmp/1
> >
> >What output do you want to get from the last two mkdir() calls, assuming
> >you do have vfsmounts? What is this output useful for?
> >
> >
> Well, forget about this particualr case.
> My final aim is to build online file system mirroring tool for home
> directories. And lets assuming that no other user have superuser
> privilage to use mount or make symbolic links to directories.
> I want entire pathname of changed file to replicate that change on the
> corresponding file in the mirror site.
look at inotify. beagle monitors entire home directory via inotify.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-12 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-12 13:44 get vfsmount from dentry Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 13:55 ` Al Viro
2006-03-12 17:20 ` Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 17:41 ` Al Viro
2006-03-12 18:00 ` Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 18:23 ` Shaya Potter
2006-03-12 18:54 ` Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 19:13 ` Al Viro
2006-03-12 20:34 ` Ashish Khurange
2006-03-12 20:45 ` Shaya Potter [this message]
2006-03-13 7:24 ` Jan Hudec
2006-03-12 18:24 ` Al Viro
2006-03-12 19:10 ` Jamie Lokier
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