[CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server -- SOLVED (kind of...)

[Les Mikesell]

Miguel Medalha wrote:
>> Did you consider sharing a directory from the machine running distiller 
>> and cifs-mounting it on the linux side to get ntfs behavior?
> That is out of question. The Windows machines are graphic workstations 
> which are not all connected all the time and the Distiller service is 
> essential to the network.

I was under the impression that the Distiller app was running under 
Windows.  If it isn't, it doesn't make much sense for it to expect NTFS 
filesystem semantics.

> When all the pages have been produced, one of the graphics people places 
> a special text file on a folder watched by Distiller and it begins to 
> bulk process all the individual PS files:

[...]

> The difficulty with the scripted solutions proposed here is that we 
> cannot know in advance at what time this process will take place and 
> what the number of pages involved will be.

Can't the trigger operation of placing the special text file be replaced 
by that person starting the script instead (perhaps click a button on a 
web page or something similar)?

 > At the end of each issue
> every minute counts. A watching process would have to poll the status of 
> the workflow for several hours with very small intervals, which would be 
> a waste of  processor cicles. And not a very elegant thing to do, I feel.

While I wouldn't call it elegant, filesystem caching makes such things 
efficient enough that you'll never notice them running.  If you need a 
script that looks for a file to appear or expands a wildcard in a 
directory, go ahead and use one as long as you can sleep for at least a 
few seconds in the loop. It's cheaper than having a person rearrange 
something.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




> 
> 
> I am (for now...) convinced that the tip given to me here about 
> dir_index and the use of  fsck -fD will solve this problem.
>  Monday I will know. It will be a loooong wait for me.
> 
> Thank you again.
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