Realtime Filesystem Replication

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mb.ca
Wed May 7 00:36:06 PDT 2003


On Tue, 06 May 2003 15:06:33 -0400
Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> YOU wrote:
> > Thanks so far to the suggestions including rsync and unison. Both
> > appear to be triggered upon a command line or user typed command. Is
> > someone using a system that tracks the mtimes for files and updates
> > without prompt? 
> 
> Are you sure you really need _realtime_?  That's a pretty tall order,
> and I don't know of anything that can provide it.

Purely out of curiousity, would it even be technically possible?  Would
kevents be the thing to handle something like this, or would they be too
low-level?

-Chris


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