On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Eric Smith wrote: > >> We should feel validated. >> >> While the GUI is indeed awesome, the big difference for me is the usage >> of FSEvents so that only files (really directories) that have been >> modified are scanned. For filesystems with many thousands of >> directories, this is a gigantic win. The other big win is hard links to >> directories. I'm not sure it would be possible to add either of these >> features into dirvish and/or rysnc. At least I haven't thought of a way. > > I would guess you would need to involve inotify. See > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-inotify.html and > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/README .
Hey, look, all my radical ideas have already occurred to others: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeVault But it doesn't seem to actually involve inotify. That's strange. -- Asheesh. -- She always believed in the old adage -- leave them while you're looking good. -- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
