Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist

From: Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff
Date: Mon Oct 27 2014 - 12:11:12 EST


> When I read your wish, I guess adding the capability to watch mounts with
> inotify would satisfy your needs. Would you agree?

The problem with inotify is that it's very inefficient for monitoring
hundreds of thousands of files, which is a fairly common case on the
desktop. I cannot see how support for watching mounts would fix that.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
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