On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 03:59:49PM +0200, DENIEL Philippe wrote: > What I have seen was this: > - if dnotify() is used, it gets every events. If used on a > directory, it will get every creation and deletion. But it is not > recursive, so we need to use dnotify on every inode we manage. > - if fanotify is used, it is recursive and by using it on the > root of a filesystem, then you have events from the whole underlying > tree. The trouble is that deletion seem not to be caught. All *notify APIs are broken by design, film at 11... See also: "Doctor, it hurts when I do it" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html