Questions tagged [fanotify]
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What are the costs of increasing `/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches` value?
In order to watch my home directory and all subdirectories recursively for 60 seconds:
$ inotifywatch -v -r -t 60 /path
You may get Failed to watch /path; upper limit on inotify watches reached! error , which you can fix by rising limit, e.g. to…
Grzegorz Wierzowiecki
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Can fanotify modify files before access by other applications?
According to this, fanotify has “the possibility to read or modify files before access by other applications”. However, I can't find any example showing how this can be done. From what I understand, fanotify is used for event monitoring and can only…
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Accessing NFS export locally: data consistency?
System I know has /etc/exports (redacted address range; NFSv4, Linux 5.8.3):
/usr/users 192.168.68.0/255.255.255.128(rw,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check)
which is mounted on client machines (to offer remote home directories). But on the same…
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