> > convinced it's worth the cost. (It appears to add about 4-5K code and > > static data, which is nothing on a PC but a bit more significant on an > > ARM system with a fixed-size flash partition for the kernel image.) > > There are plans to use fanotify within tracker, a filesystem indexer and search > engine, which would make it another user.
lsyncd 2.0 can work with fanotify too (http://packages.debian.org/experimental/lsyncd , http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/)
IMHO file indexing daemons, anti-virus/malware tools will start using this interface once it's widly available.
- Thomas