AFAIK, inotify only works on a single directory. You can set it up to add an inotify to newly created directories, but you need to hook into every directory in

AFAIK, inotify only works on a single directory. You can set it up to add an inotify to newly created directories, but you need to hook into every directory in the filesystem. Unless this has changed more recently, you can't just set up an inotify on "tell me when anything has changed on this filesystem". Some google searches do not indicate that this has changed.