Scott wrote: > of directories. The replacement for dnotify is being worked on in the > kenel and it's called inotify. If I understand it correctly > and they get it finished, it would be an awesome addition to rsync.
I can't speak for the people who work on rsync, but from the sounds of this, it seems like it's better suited for a new *rsync capable* daemon that listens for the inotify messages and synchronizes files to an rsync server using the rsync protocol. This could be achieved using the librsync modules (I think? I haven't checked to see if those are kept up to date with current rsync protocols) and would avoid having to create a listening daemon mode for rsync on top of what it already has. At least, I hope that's the method you were getting at - you wouldn't want to spawn a new call to rsync every time a file was modified - that would most likely murder your system! This sounds like an awesome idea though - I for one would jump on this if it was good in performance. I had previously experiemented with something called ssyncd which was OK, but had to scan all the files it was to monitor constantly. It's one problem was that should the part doing the monitoring lose access to the folder it was copying from, it would think the files were all gone and start an "rm -rf *" essentially and wipe all your sync'd data (that was fun times, fun times). I had poked a few other alternatives, but none were good enough. If this inotify stuff actually works, it will be a godsend :) That’s my take on this :) Eli. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
