On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
