Karsten Blees <karsten.bl...@gmail.com> writes: > However, AFAIK inotify doesn't work recursively, so the daemon > would at least have to track the directory structure to be able to > register / unregister inotify handlers as directories come and go.
Yes, and you would need one inotify per directory but you do not have an infinite supply of outstanding inotify watch (wasn't the limit like 8k per a single uid or something?), so the daemon must be prepared to say "I'll watch this, that and that directories, but the consumers should check other directories themselves." FWIW, I share your suspicion that an effort in the direction this thread suggests may end up duplicating what the caching vfs layer already does, and doing so poorly. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
