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Subject: Re: Question: tracking filesystem changes?
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Deomid Ryabkov wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
>> Deomid Ryabkov wrote:
>>
>>> This could be a custom filesystem wrapper for UFS that would report 
>>> name of the file/directory being changed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Couldn't you use kqueue system to monitor the directory-file?
> 
> 
> I could, if I hadn't near 10 millions of them.

Hm. I meant monitoring the directory itself, as a file, then parsing the 
directory list to determine what has changed. But with 10M files, 
probably nothing would work...