From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Cc: eparis@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issues with using fanotify for a filesystem indexer
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:02:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090327130242.GW28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238158043.23703.20.camel@fatty>
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:47:23PM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> In order to write an app using the fanotify API satisfying the above
> needs we would need the following events:
> * the event queue overflowed, (you need to reindex everything)
> * An inode was linked into the filesystem (creat, O_CREAT,
> mkdir, link, symlink, etc)
> * An inode was unlinked (unlink, rmdir, rename replaced existing file)
> * An inode was moved in the filesystem (rename)
Erm... Just how would you represent and *order* the events? Note that
"serialize all directory operations on given fs" is a non-starter...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-27 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-27 12:47 Issues with using fanotify for a filesystem indexer Alexander Larsson
2009-03-27 13:02 ` Al Viro [this message]
2009-03-27 13:47 ` Alexander Larsson
2009-03-28 20:38 ` Alexander Larsson
2009-04-02 14:54 ` Jan Kara
2009-04-02 16:29 ` Alexander Larsson
2009-04-02 16:50 ` Jan Kara
2009-04-02 17:15 ` Alexander Larsson
2009-04-02 19:52 ` Jan Kara
2009-04-03 6:44 ` Alexander Larsson
2009-04-03 9:33 ` Jan Kara
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