inotify-enabled apps [was: inotail]

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 01:33:51 UTC 2007


On 1/3/07, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org> wrote:
> Frankly, I'm surprised it took so long for someone to come up with an
> incron equivalent. inotify is incredibly powerful, I thought we were
> going to see a massive amount of apps starting to use it immediately.

What is the maximum number of  filesystem locations inotify can watch
in the current fedora kernels? And what is the memory tradeoff
associated with each additional watch?

-jef




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