Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1160998AbWCICog (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:44:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1160999AbWCICog (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:44:36 -0500 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.200]:49956 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1160998AbWCICof convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Mar 2006 21:44:35 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GaK0aIizhcnOQzRKhscRd4nfmwUQw8XbK7KS1M+FmkXmK9rjlreswE2ZMr3JpthE9CyPG4u7j2BICglLQRS8bRoq22D64yrBCNCvBlrIsQDBKdNkRJf7NMG7G1VYPIWucVJt9MUQmwIAmcGB6Wj32kw6lqXOLg1X4TAX44XX/rk= Message-ID: <35fb2e590603081844t4c5f062bo7f53088e3085a2a4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 02:44:34 +0000 From: "Jon Masters" Reply-To: jonathan@jonmasters.org To: "Steven Rostedt" Subject: Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate Cc: "Lee Revell" , "Helge Hafting" , "Chris Ball" , "Linux Kernel" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <35fb2e590603051336t5d8d7e93i986109bc16a8ec38@mail.gmail.com> <35fb2e590603051704k120e0257wb39c3e3eb1cf0b49@mail.gmail.com> <440C0175.7040909@aitel.hist.no> <1141690310.25487.97.camel@mindpipe> <35fb2e590603061633w2dd7fff4m63e73ee8ed409951@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 896 Lines: 20 On 3/7/06, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Hmm, this could also be very useful for change management systems and > especially backup utilities. Imagine having a daemon that records all the > changes on a filesystem, and then backs them up periodically. Could very > well be useful. Some people have already done similar things with FUSE based filesystems but my point is that there's nothing cool and useful in mainline to do what I personally want :-) Anyway, I was catching up with an old friend as part of this thread and we'll spend some time over at LinuxWorld Boston hacking on some ideas. Then I'll see what's worth doing. Jon. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/