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From: Alex Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
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To: Andreas Ferber <aferber@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Andreas Ferber wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:16:28PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> > So, monitor the parent of the directory in question for attribute changes.
> 
> ... which is a little bit difficult if you want to monitor the root
> directory.

Which is what i said in my mail, if you read it.

It also adds a monitor to a possibly busy directory that could cause a lot 
of spurious events and corresponding stats.

/ Alex

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