Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753557AbaJ0QLJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:11:09 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f49.google.com ([209.85.218.49]:54811 "EHLO mail-oi0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753213AbaJ0QLH (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:11:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <54481091.3030306@gmx.de> References: <1413881397.30379.7.camel@hadess.net> <54481091.3030306@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:11:06 +0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7W8BvFlUwPY_FKIv3nKCWr1oovY Message-ID: Subject: Re: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist From: "Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" To: Heinrich Schuchardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , Bastien Nocera Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff -- 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/