From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 21 17:27:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3BDD88 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:27:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikhail.kupchik@prime-expert.com) Received: from mail-ea0-f182.google.com (mail-ea0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C368FC14 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f182.google.com with SMTP id a14so2047229eaa.41 for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:27:24 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=3slKn/usfyBhD8lZNCpHal1Mii3b/0pv8aiV1r6FdJc=; b=CJ+1fci8ZRrCxFyQhM45pEZPzamaCLqp0ZSglibT1i3dWYMGK5ol2CvSa/+KTHVw76 VIZBPbSoCqvYIvFMCN3JBI+twK3CuzU3MoGh4JvEYH1/ulubVx2maqj3kBc9cughVfFm AX7arsUgwhhAGNLVCQo8uuchqCWNj8/IY6Glr/zYPz+k/iUEJFAYcnWxmfEHUJDWtXsC EEAVKyNhT+QnUQWLD/ekHpxOYHegT1ASTKvXnzJ7lHgwbsN47zq4aUbWT/qsTxGCT/aK qWw4DN8eI8t1AMP0iuLzG+bDZRIHB09iAVAKwQ8hzEIM1saWw4AFWqUvkIg0P1rB623q Pbew== X-Received: by 10.14.207.195 with SMTP id n43mr32664633eeo.38.1356110843985; Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.21.93.2] (189-211-132-95.pool.ukrtel.net. [95.132.211.189]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z8sm22819831eeo.11.2012.12.21.09.27.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:27:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50D49BFC.60304@prime-expert.com> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:27:24 +0200 From: Mikhail Kupchik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; ru; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD References: <20121219080412.5396aeb6@scorpio> <874njimak6.fsf@Shanna.FStaals.net> <20121219092347.4cafd59d@scorpio> <20121221095424.7a92e245@tech304> In-Reply-To: <20121221095424.7a92e245@tech304> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkQp+qgpoz+h/m0M7zpNMNbfGKfhAukjwiMhrun3sx1d8CuMzZ6JqZOs7vQQ0YVcERKPYMa X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:27:31 -0000 21.12.2012 17:54, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 +0000 > Chris Rees wrote: > > >> It needs porting to kevent. >> > Last time I talked to the Dropbox guys they said kevent isn't good enough. Something about tracking a large tree is too difficult. Similar to what the dev of lsync said. (rsync daemon that initiaties transfers when it noticies files changing). > > Maybe a FUSE filesystem, kind of "filtering layer" above real filesystem, can be used to track all changes in the large tree without consuming kernel resources for each subdirectory? -- Best regards, Mikhail Kupchik mailto:Mikhail.Kupchik@prime-expert.com