Monitoring the entire filesystem?

[Kevin Fogleman]

Is there an existing way to monitor the entire filesystem for changes to any file, particularly changes in extended attributes?

I've read over the documentation for kqueue, but some things were left unclear. For example, it appears the man page has not been updated for 5.0 and thus doesn't specify whether or how extended attributes can be monitored for modifications. Also, it appears that kqueue needs a file descriptor for each file that one would want to monitor, making any large-scale file monitoring impractical. Is there any other way in FreeBSD to be notified of file modifications in a way that would allow one to monitor the whole file system or large portions of it? I don't really need to know whether a particular attribute changed, but rather just whether any of them changed.

--Kevin Fogleman


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