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    SubjectRe: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist
    On Mon 27-10-14 20:02:51, Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff wrote:
    > > If "recursive mtime" was available, would that work for you?
    >
    > It would work for detecting "offline" changes. I suppose recursive
    > mtime not viable for online monitoring, mostly because detecting file
    > renaming would be a massive PITA (and we already have fanotify with
    > exactly this problem).
    Yes, you'll get only "something has changed in a subtree" information for
    each directory. You'd then have to rescan the directory to find out what
    has changed. But there's no simple solution for this - either you have to
    process tons of events for busy directory tree or you have to somehow
    reduce the amount of information provided to userspace...

    Honza
    --
    Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    SUSE Labs, CR


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