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	silent semantic changes with reiser4)
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On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 22:47, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>     - Can the daemon keep track of _every_ file on my disk like this?
>       That's more than a million files, and about 10^5 directories.
>       dnotify would require the daemon to open all the directories.
>       I'm not sure what inotify offers.

This is currently a real issue for both desktop search and for virus
scanners. They want a "what changed and where" system wide (or at least
per namespace/mount).