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Why isn't this built in to the FS?
Authored by: martinx on Oct 01, '03 11:33:49PM

What if I want to watch every file in the FS? Not gonna work to poll every file every 10 seconds or probably even every minute. It seems to me like the proper place for this would be the file system. I remember a utility a long time away (in an OS far far away) which would basically trap all system calls so you could see every change to the filesystem.

Why isn't Apple innovating and improving their file system? I know I've complained about Panther not having any DB stuff in the FS, maybe its time to start looking at Reiser 4, it should be out of alpha soon. (Now if only I could completely replace HFS+ with that...)



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