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From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
To: Jos Huisken <jos.huisken@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inotify, new idea?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:28:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140417212834.GC17769@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOiKX_m8buaq=4_hVQjyfv36ZtFVFieZ-CU8JeDpcdbeiX5mug@mail.gmail.com>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-17 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-17 21:00 Jos Huisken
2014-04-17 21:28 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
2014-04-18  4:15   ` Michael Kerrisk
2014-04-20 17:44     ` Lennart Sorensen
2014-04-20 22:22     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-04-21  7:24       ` Michael Kerrisk
2014-04-21  8:42         ` Richard Weinberger
2014-04-21 13:31           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 15:01             ` Richard Weinberger
2014-04-22 19:59               ` Jos Huisken
2014-05-24  7:52           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-05-24 12:34             ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-25 23:46               ` Marian Marinov
2014-05-26  7:07                 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-05-26  6:06               ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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