oplocks and file caching
Mac
mac at ngo.org.uk
Sat Jan 31 12:54:57 GMT 1998
Hi all,
In IRIX (5.x and 6.x) there's an interesting posibility for (at least
partially) addressing the UNIX-side problems with op-locks.
There exists a mechanims known as 'fam' which uses a kernel level device to
track file changes efficiently
A user-land process can express interest in a file, and will recieve
notification when that file changes.
Here followeth the main man-page.
FAM(1M) FAM(1M)
NAME
fam - file alteration monitor
SYNOPSIS
/usr/etc/fam [ -t NFS polling interval ]
DESCRIPTION
Fam is a server that tracks changes to the file system and relays these
changes to interested applications. Applications such as WorkSpace(1G)
and Mailbox(1G) present an up-to-date view of the file system. In the
absence of fam, these applications and others like them would be forced
to poll the file system to detect changes. Fam is considerably more
efficient.
Applications can request fam to monitor any files or directories in the
file system. When fam detects changes to these files, it notifies the
appropriate application. Fam(3X) provides a programmatic interface to
fam.
Fam is informed of file system changes as they happen by the IRIX kernel
through the imon(1M) pseudo device driver. Currently, fam servers do not
communicate with each other and consequently, they poll to determine the
state of NFS mounted file systems. The -t option specifies the polling
interval in seconds. The default polling interval is 3 seconds. Since
fam is invoked by inetd(1M), you must edit the /etc/inetd.conf file to
change the polling interval.
SEE ALSO
imon(1M), fam(3X), inetd(1M), workspace(1G), mailbox(1G)
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If anyone is interested in the API (fam(3X)) then I'll gladly send it to them.
(It's several pages so I'll not send it to the list).
Mac
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