Samba inotify events

[Richard Henwood]

Hi Folks,

I'm deploying a Samba (3.0.24-6etch10) server into an environment where 
users will copy files onto it. When a file arrives, I make a backup copy  
out of sight.

To achieve this, I'm watching inotify events.

Samba generates a flurry of them for all the event types I have watched.
For example:
rm file over samba (smbclient) produces:  OPEN,ISDIR  then 
CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR then DELETE
on the file system directly, rm products: DELETE

In addition, an identical file transfer will produce unpredictable, 
repeated events.

I can understand that Samba performs housekeeping through the OS so more 
file events may be observed. Unpredictable, repeated events, are a pain 
though.

Are there any configuration tweaks which may help improve the 
predictability of the events I observe through Samba?

Thanks for your time;
richard