[vdr] Re: System freeze - scanning recordings ... --> FLATFILE?

[Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:56:38 +0200, Patrick Cernko <errror@ps.uni-sb.de>
wrote:

> These changes maybe could be detected automatically when using the ctime
> of the root directory and compare it with the time of the last update of
> the internal cache, 

This is not enough. You have to stat every directory in the hierachy to
catch changes. But this stats are not the problem. Stats are really fast
even under heavy load. The problem are any actions causing a disk i/o
for many files.

Emil


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