On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Does recursive monitoring even work with inotify? Last time I've tried it did failed as soon I did a mkdir -p a/b/c/d because mkdir() raced against the thread which installes the new watches. -- Thanks, //richard -- 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/
