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Subject: Re: File transfer for fastness
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On 2020-06-14, t.sathyanarayanan@gmail.com <t.sathyanarayanan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Im trying to find best solution for parallel file transfer, which is
> event driven after the file written to a directory with extension
> like .done, means the file is ready for file transfer.
>
> 1. Monitoring the directory for .done is cpu cycle time waster
>
> 2. running a cron on particular interval to transfer files will not
>    help fasteness to the data.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/inotify.7.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inotify