Re: inotify, new idea?

[Jos Huisken]

Seems like also 'mv' events are also not supported by fanotify, like
creation/deletion.
Therefore not an option (for lsyncd) probably. Maybe loggedfs is (if
time permits...).
Thanks for the discussion.

Jos

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Am 21.04.2014 15:31, schrieb Michael Kerrisk (man-pages):
>> On 04/21/2014 10:42 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> Am 21.04.2014 09:24, schrieb Michael Kerrisk:
>>>>> Does recursive monitoring even work with inotify?
>>>>> Last time I've tried it did failed as soon I did a mkdir -p a/b/c/d because
>>>>> mkdir() raced against the thread which installes the new watches.
>>>>
>>>> As I understand it, you have to program to deal with the races (rescan
>>>> directories after adding watches). I recently did a lot of work
>>>> updating the inotify(7) man page to discuss all the issues that I know
>>>> of, and their remedies. If I missed anything, I'd appreciate a note on
>>>> it, so that it can be added. See
>>>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html#NOTES
>>>
>>> I'm aware of the rescan hack, but in my case it does not help
>>> because my program must not miss any event.
>>
>> Then, we're understand the same thing: you're out of luck :-}.
>>
>>> Currently I'm using a fuse overlay filesystem to log everything.
>>> Not perfect but works... :-)
>>
>> Interesting notion. I need to get to grips with FUSE...
>
> e.g. http://loggedfs.sourceforge.net/
>
> Thanks,
> //richard
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