Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Hi, On Thursday 06 October 2005 06:53, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote: > I guess csync2 will still need to scan the all the directories > in the group to be able to tell which files were modified, > right? yes. but this scanning is in fact nothing else than executing stat(). the actual content is not read unless a change in the metadata has been detected. > Will it possible to narrow the scope of particular execution of > csync2? So if there is a way to know which files / directories > were possibly modified, csync2 only scan those directories > instead of the whole group. sure. just pass the file or path name: csync2 -x / ...... check and sync everything in the config csync2 -x /etc ... check and sync only the csync2-managed files in /etc csync2 -x ........ check and sync everything in the hint database > BTW, anybody use fschange > <http://stefan.buettcher.org/cs/fschange/> already? This kernel > patch report which files were modified. thanks for the tip. I will have a look at this. (unfortunately inotify can't mointor directory structures recusively because it is inode-based and not named-based. so there is no checking deamon for filling the csync2 hint database on the fly for linux yet.) yours, - clifford -- : Clifford Wolf Tel +43-1-8178292-00 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schönbrunnerstr 244, 1120 Vienna, Austria http://www.linbit.com :