Comment 4 for bug 602211
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| Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen (kamstrup) wrote Re: Monitoring for new files | #4 |
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Inotify still sucks rest assured :-)
A watch on a dir will only tell us when some unspecified thing happens to some unspecified file in that directory. We could install monitors directly on the last N (fx. 100) actual file inodes perhaps, but I am reluctant to do that - what happens when we aren't running? Do you wanna stat() all the last N files on startup (eeeeek!)?
In any case this could be done entirely in an extension.
As I said before I think FANotify and/or btrfs is our only hope here - or actually using Tracker directly to monitor these events. Tracker is probably the most advanced file monitor out there these days.