[gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

[Iain Buchanan]

Hi,

I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file
system.  I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want.

Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere.  I don't want
to register a whole bunch of files to watch, I just want to watch an
entire mount.  When a file is changed (ie. a write operation occurs), I
then want to add that file or fd to a list in RAM.  That's all.

I know this may be a lot of data, considering streams and devices, but I
can filter out /dev, /proc, etc. and just focus on "real" files.

Is there anything that can do this?

thanks :)
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