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I've been researching the state of 'file alteration monitoring' technology on Linux. Famd uses dnotify to inefficently monitor a handful of directories. The replacement for dnotify is being worked on in the kenel and it's called inotify. If I understand it correctly and they get it finished, it would be an awesome addition to rsync. With it, you could run rsync to update a

...inutes) I'm going to dig into the source now to see if I can make all this happen. If anyone has any questions or suggestions, shoot. If this can be pulled off, it will solve the huge limitation of rsync and make it's great technology applicable to almost any filesystem. scottb bxwa.com