linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

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Message-ID: <20070109003230.GD5418@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:33:18 -0500
From:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
To:	Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@...pop.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:19:48AM +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> As a simple user without much knowledge of kernel internals, much less
> so filesystems, couldn't something based on the same principle of
> lsof+fam be used to handle these situations?

Using inotify has been suggested before. That let the upper filesystem
know when something changed on the lower filesystem.

I think that, while it would work, it is not the right solution.

Josef "Jeff" Sipek.

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