linux-kernel - Re: inotify, new idea?

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Message-ID: <20140417212834.GC17769@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:28:34 -0400
From:	"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
To:	Jos Huisken <jos.huisken@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inotify, new idea?

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?

-- 
Len Sorensen
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