On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:24 AM, Philip Van Hoof phi...@codeminded.be wrote:
Don't try to work around limitations of kernel APIs by
implementing inherently not scalabale algorithms in userspace.
I mean, you implemented something that scales O(n) with n the
numbers of dirs. That's what you need
On Thu, 23.10.14 08:15, Aleksander Morgado (aleksan...@aleksander.es) wrote:
That's a good one indeed; coalescing events in that way in the kernel
looks quite a sane approach. Still, one single process in userspace
doing all the control of what changed when (like FSEvents does) may
actually
On 23/10/14 10:34, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Thu, 23.10.14 08:15, Aleksander Morgado (aleksan...@aleksander.es) wrote:
That's a good one indeed; coalescing events in that way in the kernel
looks quite a sane approach. Still, one single process in userspace
doing all the control of what
On Thu, 23.10.14 11:40, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote:
Anyway, please remember that being privileged isn't the only reason
why Tracker can't use fanotify. It's API being fd-based, it works on
existing open files only; e.g. it won't notify file deletes or move
events, among other
On 23/10/14 12:01, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Thu, 23.10.14 11:40, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote:
I don't really understand why it was developed as a half complete solution
if I am honest. It's not as if there are no examples to follow out there
(FSEvents) and it's not as if we
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On 23/10/2014 13:01, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Thu, 23.10.14 11:40, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote:
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I know it's a hard problem to solve, but if it's not solved with
the proposed solutions, the kernel developers shouldn't really
On Thu, 23.10.14 13:31, Philip Van Hoof (phi...@codeminded.be) wrote:
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On 23/10/2014 13:01, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Thu, 23.10.14 11:40, Martyn Russell (mar...@lanedo.com) wrote:
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I know it's a hard problem to solve, but if it's
