From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Sylvain Rochet <gradator@gradator.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.35.7 to 3.0 Inotify events missing
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:22:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110822172239.GA15960@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110822090751.029de688@notabene.brown>
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 09:07:51AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> One is to use bind mounts. i.e. I effectively do
> mount --bind $HOME/.config $HOME/.config
> and ask for events from the newly created vfsmnt.
> This will not catch changes made through file descriptors that were opened
> before I did the mount, or through hard links from some other directory
> tree. But for a particular use-case that might not be a problem.
I'm missing what the extra vfsmount gets you here. The problems seem
just the same as if you don't have one.
Oh, wait, I see, it's that the file descriptors are associated with
vfsmounts, not just dentries. Hm.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-22 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20101018223540.GA20730@gradator.net>
2011-08-19 23:03 ` PROBLEM: 2.6.35.7 to 3.0 Inotify events missing Sylvain Rochet
[not found] ` <20110819230344.GA24784-XWGZPxRNpGHk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-08-19 23:37 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20110819233756.GI11512-DqlFc3psUjeg7Qil/0GVWOc42C6kRsbE@public.gmane.org>
2011-08-20 0:47 ` Sylvain Rochet
2011-08-20 3:21 ` Jamie Lokier
2011-08-20 1:29 ` Al Viro
2011-08-20 1:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-08-20 2:01 ` Al Viro
[not found] ` <20110820012943.GD2203-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
2011-08-20 3:03 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] ` <20110820030335.GA14899-DqlFc3psUjeg7Qil/0GVWOc42C6kRsbE@public.gmane.org>
2011-08-21 17:07 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <20110821170714.GB9296-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-08-21 20:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2011-08-21 23:07 ` NeilBrown
2011-08-22 17:22 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
[not found] ` <20110822172239.GA15960-uC3wQj2KruNg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
2011-08-22 23:21 ` NeilBrown
2011-08-25 21:47 ` Sylvain Rochet
2011-08-21 22:29 ` NeilBrown
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