RE: DazukoFS (was Re: Device file events)

"Tikka, Sami" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.dazuko.devel
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] 
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>] On Behalf Of Abhishek Nayani
>Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 11:51 AM
>To: John Ogness
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: [Dazuko-devel] DazukoFS (was Re: Device file events)
>
>One 
>way would be to either 
>monitor /etc/mtab || /proc/mounts to know of a mount event and 
>then mount dazukoFS 
>on it or to wrap the mount command itself. Both look messy to 
>me. Any solutions ?

2.6.13 kernel includes a new interface called "inotify". It can tell an
application when something is umounted. Perhaps it can be persuaded to inform
about mounts too?

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