Re: [MLUG] filesystem hooks

[Jeremy Norris <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:49:52PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> What I'm doing has to do with a spidering program (Actually a lot of
> different ones) that write data to a given file tree. Each file written to
> this tree needs to be checked (not corrupt, not a duplicate, etc) and if
> it is okay copied to a permanent file warehouse.. passing through the
> needed filters along the way.  My spiders are a collection of programs
> written by myself in several different languages,  third party tools, etc
> making it painful to have to hack into each program if I need to change
> the method files are saved into the warehouse by. Cron jobs work okay but
> they put a lot of unneeded load on the system scanning the file tree for
> new files and sometimes miss files that are created and destroyed quickly.
> The best solution is to trigger the warehousing scripts as needed by the
> filesystem. In this specific case this solution will use fewer system
> resources than other solutions and shouldn't create a problem as this
> filesystem is only being used over a very select group of files.
> 
> Will look at CSA. Maybe it'll keep me from having to write my own file
> system. Hope so. :)

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Jeremy

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