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2017 Feb 09
2
Huge directory tree: Get files to sync via tools like sysdig
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:55:51 +0100
Axel Kittenberger <axkibe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has someone experience with collecting the changed files
> > with a third party tool which detects which files were changed?
>
> I don't know of sysdig but am the developer of Lsyncd which does
> exactly that, collect file changes via inotify event mechanism and
> then calls
2017 Feb 09
1
Huge directory tree: Get files to sync via tools like sysdig
...to arrive
> in order, or even the file descriptor might briefly close with "no
> more events" inbetween them, but I never ever heared of anybody
> encountering an issue of an event in a watched directory on not being
> correctly reported, without getting the information of an overlfow
> with an OVERFLOW event, which results in case of Lsyncd in a full
> rescan of everything.
Not much. inotify(7) on my system says:
With careful programming, an application can use inotify to
efficiently monitor and cache the state of a set of filesystem
objects. How...