Re: [2.6.16 PATCH] Connector: Filesystem Events Connector v3

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Fri Mar 24 2006 - 03:06:46 EST


On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:23:45PM -0800, Andrew Morton (akpm@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:59:01 +0100
> >
> > > then make the syslog part optional.. if it's not already!
> >
> > Regardless I still think the filesystem events connector is a useful
> > facility.
>
> Why's that?
>
> (I'd viewed it as a fun thing, but I haven't really seen much pull for it,
> and the scalability issues in there aren't trivial).

This module uses ratelimiting of event generation, so it will not hurt
performance, but probably this should be somehow tuned from userspace.

--
Evgeniy Polyakov
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