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