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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:42:34 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        "Igor V. Ruzanov" <igorr@canmos.ru>
Cc:        Kenton Varda <temporal@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Subject:   Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?
Message-ID:  <20101025074234.GA71353@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1010251046430.24567@sta1.canmos.ru>
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:48:58AM +0400, Igor V. Ruzanov wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kenton Varda wrote:
> 
> |That doesn't answer my question.  I'm not even using make.  I could write a
> |few thousand words describing exactly what I'm trying to do and why it does,
> |in fact, make sense, but it's really beside the point.  I just want to know
> |if there is any scalable way to monitor a very large directory tree for
> |changes.  Is there?
> |
> Dig `kqueue' - its the native FreeBSD's events polling/notification 
> mechanism.

Since the OP mentioned using EVFILT_VNODE I would assume he is already
using kqueue but is not satisfied with it.




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