Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

[Bill Kenworthy]

Can the older dnotify do what you want? - it monitors files differently
to inotify.  There is also gammin/fam.

BillK


On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 16:24 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> 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 :)