01-09-2020
Hello mrAibo,
You might get some joy from the output of the stat command. The file is Modified as it is created and Changed as the content is written, however this might not be safe for a polling process to be sure the file is complete.
What is the overall goal of the process you are looking to automate?
It might be safer to write a flag file when the real IO has completed, e.g. the file name might be abc123def456.output and this grows as the data is written/transferred. At the end of the writing process, just touch abc123def456.output.complete A reading process should look for files ending .complete and only then attempt to work with the real data file. Of course, there is then an extra file to tidy away and an extra IO, but the time taken should be negligible.
Does this better suit what you need, or have I missed the point?
Kind regards,
Robin
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nfsiod, biod - The local NFS compatible asynchronous I/O daemon
SYNOPSIS
nfsiod [ numthreads ]
DESCRIPTION
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server. The I/O threads improve performance of both NFS reads and writes. Both try to enlist the aid of an idle I/O thread. If none is
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The optimum number of I/O threads to run depends on many variables, such as how quickly the client will be writing, how many files will be
accessed simultaneously, and the behaviour of the NFS server. For use with a Tru64 UNIX server, 7 is a good number of I/O threads for most
systems.
When reading, if the client believes the process is reading a file sequentially, it requests an I/O thread to read a block ahead of what
the process is currently requesting. If the readahead completes before the process asks for that block, then the subsequent read system
call for that data completes immediately and does not have to wait for the NFS request to complete. Read ahead will be triggered again so
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When writing a file, the client takes the process's data, passes the request to an I/O thread and immediately returns to the process. If
the process is writing data faster than the network or server can process, then eventually all the I/O threads become busy and the process
has to handle a NFS write itself. This means the process has to wait until the server finishes the write. For Tru64 UNIX servers, the NFS
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