On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:10:07PM +0100, Moritz Augustin wrote: > I'm new to gamin and fam, but need such a program to monitor the > maildirs on an nfs-mounted volume. The problem is that the changes to > the remote filesystem are not everytime made locally. So the kernel > notification to the gamin daemon cannot work because gamin is running > locally and the kernel notification is only at the nfs storage server.
in my tests modifications initiated by the local host are reported locally at least on a dnotify based system, I would hope inotify works that way too. > To poll the opened folders every $intervall second is too expensive - it > would be great just to get the realtime information exactly when the > filesystem is modified. local modification, yes, remote modifications, that won't be possible. > My question is (because I know there are other people needing exactly > the same) if it would be hard to build a server-client relationship > between to gamin-daemons. The client would act as a normal gamin daemon > on the one host but has also capabilities to have a efficient look at > nfs-made changes because the server-gamin reports every modification > instantly. I don't intent to implement anything like this myself, the old fam daemon had something like this plugging in the remote NFS server with RPC, but it was a big mess to get working, it was a security hazard, I doubt anybody want to get back to this. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ Gamin-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
