Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2007 19:33:18 -0500 | From | Josef Sipek <> | 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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