From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754635Ab1ASTTE (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:19:04 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46942 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754602Ab1ASTTC (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:19:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH] fsnotify: track all events on filesystem From: Eric Paris To: Jakob Goldbach Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:18:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100713153626.EB8B140434E@localdomain.local> References: <20100713153626.EB8B140434E@localdomain.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1295464736.21577.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 17:36 +0200, Jakob Goldbach wrote: > (Resending, this time with fsnotify maintainer cc'ed) > > This patch allows notification groups to get events on the entire filesystem, > not just on registered inodes. > > I want to use it for a notification group that tracks all changes to the > filesystem in order to do faster backups. > > Is this a good or bad idea? > > /Jakob This mail (like many notification e-mails) was eaten by my spam filter. I hope you've gotten an answer by now, but I'll respond 6 months late. We allow you to do something very similar, by listening to events on mount points. Hopefully that meets your needs..... -Eric