Re: Issues with using fanotify for a filesystem indexer

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:47:23PM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> In order to write an app using the fanotify API satisfying the above
> needs we would need the following events:
> * the event queue overflowed, (you need to reindex everything)
> * An inode was linked into the filesystem (creat, O_CREAT,
> mkdir, link, symlink, etc)
> * An inode was unlinked (unlink, rmdir, rename replaced existing file)
> * An inode was moved in the filesystem (rename)

Erm...  Just how would you represent and *order* the events?  Note that
"serialize all directory operations on given fs" is a non-starter...
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