Question: tracking filesystem changes?

[Deomid Ryabkov]

>>>> This could be a custom filesystem wrapper for UFS that would report 
>>>> name of the file/directory being changed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Couldn't you use kqueue system to monitor the directory-file?
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>> I could, if I hadn't near 10 millions of them.
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> Hm. I meant monitoring the directory itself, as a file, then parsing 
> the directory list to determine what has changed. But with 10M files, 
> probably nothing would work...
>
these are 10M of static documents, the daily change is minmal.
the question is: where it is the appropriate place to collect those changes?
the right way seems to implement a customs filesystem, but would it 
possible to obtain a full path at that level?

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Deomid Ryabkov aka Rojer
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