That depends on the filesystem events you tie into (Open, Close, Write, Delete, etc) and what your responding script does. But, at the point where you want to p

That depends on the filesystem events you tie into (Open, Close, Write, Delete, etc) and what your responding script does. But, at the point where you want to put the entire system under some kind of change management, why not use something designed for that, like NixOS[0]? [0] http://nixos.org/nixos/ http://nixos.org/nixos/