Dropbox on FreeBSD

[Mikhail Kupchik]

21.12.2012 17:54, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:45:13 +0000
> Chris Rees<utisoft at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> It needs porting to kevent.
>>      
> Last time I talked to the Dropbox guys they said kevent isn't good enough. Something about tracking a large tree is too difficult. Similar to what the dev of lsync said. (rsync daemon that initiaties transfers when it noticies files changing).
>
>    

Maybe a FUSE filesystem, kind of "filtering layer" above real 
filesystem, can be used to track all changes in the large tree without 
consuming kernel resources for each subdirectory?



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