Re: Building off Medusa

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

> FAM does not support recursive monitoring, which means you have to add a
> monitor for every directory to receive notification of changes to those
> files. According to the FAM FAQ, you can only have 1024 active
> "requests", which means you can only monitor up to 1024 directories. My
> computer has more than 30000 directories... so I don't see how it would
> be possible to use FAM to receive notification of changes across my
> whole filesystem.
>
> -Seth
Well, I don't know about your experience in FAM's regard, but I can 
assure you I have monitored thousands of directories without problem.  I 
don't care if it was using dnotify or not, I just used the command-line 
notification tool which is in SGI's OSS projects web site, and it 
worked.  And it didn't have any noticeable performance impact.

Thousands.  I have the feeling that FAM does NOT open each directory to 
be monitored. I would understand your concerns if it did

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