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On 5 May 2010, at 18:24, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> man inotify(7): |
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>> ... When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the |
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>> directory itself, and for files inside the directory. |
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> To repeat my comment on Iain's original "backup to a cold-swap drive" |
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> thread ... |
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Sorry, I started ignoring that almost immediately it was posted. He |
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rejected too quickly too many workable solutions to basically |
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functional backup. Perhaps Iain is a perfectionist, but I did not wish |
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to follow the thread. |
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> ... Inotify has two drawbacks which make it hard or even impossible |
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> to use for Iain's use case: |
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> a) It does not work recursively which means that you have to create a |
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> new handle for each subdirectory. Of course, this only means more work |
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> for the programmer but there is also the problem that |
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Pardon me. I assumed that "files inside the directory" meant that foo |
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would be be changed when foo/bar changed, thus monitoring grunt would |
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reflect changes in grunt/foo/bar. I overlooked that a directory is not |
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a file. |
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Stroller. |
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