Re: [MLUG] filesystem hooks

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Whatg I'm doing is intercepting file writes from various sources and
taking the ones that interest me to duplicate in a database. Without
interferring with the normal behavior of the programs writing to the
filesystem. ;)

Don't dream it. Be it.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org/projects/

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Jonathan King wrote:

>
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Dave Lloyd wrote:
>
> > > So what are you really trying to do here?
> > >
> > > jking
> >
> > I was wondering the same thing.  Plus, this would *really,
> > really, really* slow down your system.  Maybe grind it to a
> > halt.  Think of the overhead in forking, interpreting then
> > executing a shell script each time a file is written.
>
> Euuw. I hadn't thought about that.  And in this case, not
> even a daemon would save you since that would have to fork, too,
> to handle multiple requests.
>
> OK, so here's another idea: instead of messing around with the file
> system in this case, why not just accept the fact that you're asking
> for functionality that is really more in tune with a database that
> has triggers?  You're still looking at a lot of crunching around,
> but you could at least cut down on the process creation overhead,
> handle the transactions atomically, and get accounting built-in,
> too.
>
> So what are you really trying to do here?
>
> jking
>
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