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From: "Igor V. Ruzanov" <igorr@canmos.ru>
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Subject: Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees?
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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.



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