[Gluster-users] Can we know fileSystem event from GlusterFS ?

Venky Shankar yknev.shankar at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 06:23:24 UTC 2014


apart from the couple of options given by Prashanth, you might be
interested in this (in the future):
http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Features/Gnotify

    Venky

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Prashanth Pai <ppai at redhat.com> wrote:

> GlusterFS has changelog feature. More information can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/features/geo-replication/libgfchangelog.md
>
> However, changelog logs GFID (unique id of a file) and not the path name.
> Here are some pointers on how to get file path from GFID:
> https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/debugging/gfid-to-path.md
>
> Another way is to use inotify on brick mounts. inotify has it's own
> limitations of being not scalable and not being recursive. If you're lucky
> you might find some user space libraries that do implement recursive
> monitoring, which is a little tricky and prone to race conditions.
> http://lwn.net/Articles/605128/
>
> Regards,
>  -Prashanth Pai
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "xiaoyu" <xiaoyu at neusoft.com>
> To: "gluster-users" <gluster-users at gluster.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2014 12:53:18 PM
> Subject: [Gluster-users] Can we know fileSystem event from GlusterFS ?
>
> Hi, every one:
>
> we are using GlusterFS V3.5.2 and we are facing a problem of monitoring
> filechanges:
>
> Suppose we create a new file in a volume, can GlusterFS log it somewhere,
> informing things like : file add in column?
>
> Any suggestion will be appreciated,thanks.
>
>
>
> xiaoyu
>
>
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