Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751474AbaDQV25 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:28:57 -0400 Received: from mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.52]:36149 "EHLO mail.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751001AbaDQV2j (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:28:39 -0400 From: "Lennart Sorensen" Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:28:34 -0400 To: Jos Huisken Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: inotify, new idea? Message-ID: <20140417212834.GC17769@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:00:37PM +0200, Jos Huisken wrote: > I was trying to maintain a local and remote directory in sync with > lsync, using inotify. > I happen to have >4M files and >400k directories... running over > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches Would fanotify perhaps be a better interface to use? -- Len Sorensen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/