Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:48:58 +0400 (MSD) From: "Igor V. Ruzanov" <igorr@canmos.ru> To: Kenton Varda <temporal@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com> Subject: Re: EVFILT_VNODE doesn't scale to large directory trees? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1010251046430.24567@sta1.canmos.ru> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=SOjwVDzcmezRhiVPSEqXcBNZ9dGFC7GM_dqE8@mail.gmail.com> References: <201010250446.o9P4kcid004004@mail.r-bonomi.com> <AANLkTi=SOjwVDzcmezRhiVPSEqXcBNZ9dGFC7GM_dqE8@mail.gmail.com>
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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. +-------------------------------------------+ ! CANMOS ISP Network ! +-------------------------------------------+ ! Best regards ! ! Igor V. Ruzanov, network operational staff! ! e-Mail: igorr@canmos.ru ! +-------------------------------------------+
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