Re: Can fam do this [was] vanishing fam-2.6.10-11

[Michel Salim <michel salim gmail com>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 03:35:26 -0400, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> 
>   The FAM API is about reporting changes, but not how files changed.
> It is relatively expensive on large directories unfortunately:
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124361
> 
>  I will try to reduce the CPU usage in gamin but we lack kernel support
> which would make that easy.
> 

On a related note, is there a way to prevent FAM from locking up
writable removable media? Sometimes - but not always - when using FAM
in conjunction with Nautilus, I get unmount errors and have had to
killall -9 fam to proceed.

Regards,

- Michel