Nicolas Williams wrote: > What happens if the daemon crashes and has to get restarted? Surely it > will miss events, and this will be as bad as being stopped while some > watched filesystems are still mounted, right? Is there a deeper > robustness issue here?
Do note that system shutdowns are normal occurrences, while services crashes should never happen. While it's desirable to ensure uninterrupted service in both cases, I'd say that a different standard applies to the two cases.