On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Paul Archer <p...@paularcher.org> wrote:
> OK, so this may be a little off-topic, but here goes:
> The reason I switched to OpenSolaris was primarily to take advantage of
> ZFS's features when storing my digital imaging collection.
>
> I switched from a pretty stock Linux setup, but it left me at one
> disadvantage. I had been using inotify under Linux to trigger a series of
> Ruby scripts that would do all the basic ingestion/setup for me (renaming
> files, converting to DNG, adding bulk metadata). The scripts will run under
> OpenSolaris, except for the inotify part.
>
> Question: Is there a facility similar to inotify that I can use to monitor a
> directory structure in OpenSolaris/ZFS, such that it will block until a file
> is modified (added, deleted, etc), and then pass the state along (STDOUT is
> fine)? One other requirement: inotify can handle subdirectories being added
> on the fly. So if you use it to monitor, for example, /data/images/incoming,
> and a /data/images/incoming/100canon directory gets created, then the files
> under that directory will automatically be monitored as well.
Paul,
while there is no inotify for Solaris, there are similar technologies available.
Check port_create(3C) and gam_server(1)
--
Regards,
Cyril
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