Re: Ext3 for Linux 2.4 progress report (fwd)

2001-04-24 Thread Peter J. Braam
Hi, I thought that Andrew's suggestion below really warrants review by the list. This is regarding a new super method to give the fs a notification when a block is written in order to support journal file systems. - Peter - Peter J. Braam wrote: I hope to call Stephen soon to better

Linux Dir Notification

2001-04-24 Thread Dirk Mueller
(I posted this already but got no response. Am I really posting to the wrong list ??) Hi, I have a small problem when using the directory notifications. when the directory itself that I watch in my program is deleted, I don't receive an event, although I'd expect a delete event for the .

Re: Linux Dir Notification

2001-04-24 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 15:24, Dirk Mueller wrote: (I posted this already but got no response. Am I really posting to the wrong list ??) Hi, I have a small problem when using the directory notifications. when the directory itself that I watch in my program is deleted, I don't receive an

[RFC] i_size problem for FIFOs

2001-04-24 Thread Alexander Viro
Folks, at some point somebody decided to use -i_size for all pipes (for amount of bytes in flight, AFAICS). Which might be a nice thing, except that for FIFOs it leads to interesting problems. Think what happens if you get FIFO inode dirtied (for any reason - chown(), atime,

Re: Linux Dir Notification

2001-04-24 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Die, 24 Apr 2001, Daniel Phillips wrote: I have a small problem when using the directory notifications. when the directory itself that I watch in my program is deleted, I don't receive an event, although I'd expect a delete event for the . entry (IMHO). This makes it much easier to