Re: dnotify semantics

Alex Larsson (alexl@redhat.com)
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:56:24 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Andreas Ferber wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:16:28PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> > So, monitor the parent of the directory in question for attribute changes.
>
> ... which is a little bit difficult if you want to monitor the root
> directory.

Which is what i said in my mail, if you read it.

It also adds a monitor to a possibly busy directory that could cause a lot
of spurious events and corresponding stats.

/ Alex

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