I need to implement fast a small file system monitor. I don’t want to implement a driver for this because I don’t need very good performance, I don’t need very good control, and I need to do it fast. I need something like ReadDirectoryChangesW.
The monitor will mostly need to watch the Desktop folder or the MyDocuments, but, it can be configured to watch other folders.
I read something about using change journals, but those aren’t the best deal either because they give the changes of an entire volume, and works with control codes that I need to send whenever I want to read any changes. I gues this also causes overhead.
How reliable is " FindFirstChangeNotification or ReadDirectoryChangesW " .
How reliable are the journals, and are there any other options I can consider ?
Have you considered if the .NET FileSystemWatcher classes contain the
functionality you require?
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I need to implement fast a small file system monitor. I don’t want to
implement a driver for this because I don’t need very good performance,
I don’t need very good control, and I need to do it fast. I need
something like ReadDirectoryChangesW.
The monitor will mostly need to watch the Desktop folder or the
MyDocuments, but, it can be configured to watch other folders.
I read something about using change journals, but those aren’t the best
deal either because they give the changes of an entire volume, and works
with control codes that I need to send whenever I want to read any
changes. I gues this also causes overhead.
How reliable is " FindFirstChangeNotification or ReadDirectoryChangesW "
.
How reliable are the journals, and are there any other options I can
consider ?
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Yes, they are cool, I have made today two test programs that monitor the Root volume and they both did pretty well ( .NET and ReadDirectoryChangesW) .
I will need to do extra testing to look for greater efficiency.