[Cialug] instant replication with rsync

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Matthew Nuzum
<matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
> I seem to remember a
> feature from SGI that notified applications when the fs changed. That
> was years ago and seems like there'd be lots of good uses for that, so
> certainly it's common now, right?

I'd suggest looking at the Python bindings to Gamin, which uses
inotify to watch for changes to files/directories:

http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/python.html

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Jeff Ollie

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