There's a new thing (fanotify). LWN did a short series on different filesystem n...

There's a new thing (fanotify). LWN did a short series on different filesystem notification methods in July:

Unfortunately the fanotify article is yet to come!

(Having said that, I certainly appreciate your pain trying to use inotify to track write events on an entire filesystem)

mopo2000 on Dec 11, 2014 [–]

fanotify is super limited, and not useful for this app. It's from 2009, but has seen little use.