Re: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives (was: silent semantic changes with reiser4)

Alan Cox
2004-09-02T22:27:06Z

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).