Re: [Tracker] About "Linux Kernel file notification" support

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:00 +0800, Jerry Tan wrote:
> Are you talking about fam or inotify?it is already there.
>
> If enable fam or inotify, whenever a file under watched is modified.
> tracker deamon will be notified to re index it again.
 no we need a watchless system which is more efficient for mass watching
large numbers of directories

(inotify uses a linked list so watching 10,000 directories would be
really slow)

OS/X and FreeBSD have such a system so it would be nice to have similar
on linux and other systems. There was talk of using a ring buffer file
which the kernel uses to log all changes to files.

jamie