Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 02:26:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
cc: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] Unionfs: Documentation
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On Jan 8 2007 19:33, Josef Sipek wrote:
>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.

Because inotify is not recursive yet?


	-`J'
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