indexing symbolic links

[Mag Gam]

wow, i didn't think about renames and all.

I am not a strong C programmer so I don't think hacking the kernel is an
option :-(

I bet there is more to this also...

Thanks for your thoughts.


On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Stephen Samuel <darkonc at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you're only counting when YOU create and remove links, then you could
> put a hook and count from there. (without depending on anything within ext3)
> If, on the other hand, you're depending on when ANYBODY creates or removes
> a link (hard or soft), then you have a good bit more work to do.  The only
> way that I can think of to do that would be to put a link into the ext3
> driver -- but you wouldn't just have to log the symlink calls. you'd also
> have to track things like renames  (in-directory vs cross-directory vs
> cross-filesystem) and unlinks (rm)
>
> Given that it sounds like you're doing symlinks and the target files aren't
> actually being owned by the person in question, it doesn't sound like the
> quota system would do the job for you, so you're probably going to need tro
> either do some kernel hacking, or write a batch job that runs regularly that
> does the information collection for you.
>
> 2008/6/22 Mag Gam <magawake at gmail.com>:
>
>> Find or ls I can check for symbolic links, but the file system is very
>> large. About 250GB and I have several of them.
>> I was wondering if  ext3 kept track of these things, apparently it does
>> not.
>>
>> At my university, we have physical storage in a filesystem, and we assign
>> professors and students space by doing a symbolic link. Basically I want to
>> keep track of physical storage with virtual/logical storage. Thats why I ask
>> :-)
>>
>> TIA
>
>
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