Best approach to detecting a move or rename to a file in Linux?

Question

Some solution could probably be applicable to Windows, however I am not familiar with the Windows OS, so this will be Linux focused.

As far as I understand, Unix fil

Answer 1

Notice that this will be filesystem dependent. It is doable in ext3 and similar filesystems, but maybe not in others. This is probably also a rather resource hungry operation since it needs to scan through the disk to check all inodes, so you need to look up a solution to be notified when inodes are changed (instead of scanning through them all).

Answer 2

Look into inotify which allows you to get a call when anybody does anything to files in a specified file system or directory.

Answer 3

logroate use mv command, there have a article to explain why the fd not change when the file be moved How do the UNIX commands mv and rm work with open files?