Messages in this thread | | | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Date | Fri, 18 Apr 2014 06:15:40 +0200 | Subject | Re: inotify, new idea? |
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:00:37PM +0200, Jos Huisken wrote: >> I was trying to maintain a local and remote directory in sync with >> lsync, using inotify. >> I happen to have >4M files and >400k directories... running over >> /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches > > Would fanotify perhaps be a better interface to use?
(One of us is misunderstanding fanotify; it might be me.)
Did you look at fanotify closely? I don't think it could be used for this task -- does not notify linka dn unlink events, difficult to set up recursive monitoring, etc.
Cheers,
Michael
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