Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation

[Josef Sipek]

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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