>From: John Groves <John@xxxxxxxxxx>
>I'm trying to track changes to a filesystem via dmapi. There are a few
>things that I haven't figured out yet, and I'm hoping somebody can set
>me straight. My filesystems can be huge, so want to avoid full scans to
>the extent possible. I can get CREATE events, but in some cases I need
>the filename & path to pass to a separate program.
Maybe. Does it just need to access the file, or does it really need to know
it's pathname?
> * If I have a file handle, can I get the relevant the relevant
> directory handle somehow? If so I could presumably use
The CREATE event gave you the filehandle of the parent directory....
> dm_handle_to_path() to generate the path...
You won't like it. Unix-based filesystems don't provide anything special for
translating an inode into a filename; you just have to search the filesystem
for the inode--and then you know the filename.
There's nothing special about XFS in this regard.
Also, the implementation of dm_handle_to_path that I wrote for libdm is
aweful. I won't turn down a better implementation if it's offered.
Anyway, you won't like it.
> * Given a handle, how can I tell whether it is for a file or directory?
dm_get_fileattr() will give you that info.
Dean
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