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[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:57:01AM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> On 4/18/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 4. With all the file-alteration monitor goodness available in modern
> > > Linux kernels isn't it about time someone thinks of a better way to
> > > maintain an index instead of reading the entire fs?
> > 
> > there is no decent file change monitor available in the linux kernel
> > right now; dnotify is a lot but not decent ;)
> > 
> >
> Will the redhat kernels move to inotify and will that help out any? 
> I'm not sure when that/if goes into main kernel tree or not.

I doubt the kernels will include inotify before mainline does; it's a user
visible interface that isn't set in stone until it is merged, and there's
still debate about what the interface should be exactly.