Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:46:52 +0100 From: Milan Obuch <milan@dino.sk> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question: tracking filesystem changes? Message-ID: <200502011746.52908.milan@dino.sk> In-Reply-To: <41FFA801.8070307@rojer.pp.ru> References: <41FF6869.5060709@rojer.pp.ru> <41FF8B00.2010208@fer.hr> <41FFA801.8070307@rojer.pp.ru>
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On Tuesday 01 February 2005 17:02, 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... > > these are 10M of static documents, the daily change is minmal. > the question is: where it is the appropriate place to collect those > changes? the right way seems to implement a customs filesystem, but would > it possible to obtain a full path at that level? > Did you consider using fam (file alteration monitor) from ports? Milan
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