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Add discussion and rejection of Change Journals.

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Signed-off-by: Daira Hopwood <daira@jacaranda.org>
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@ -72,6 +72,14 @@ Win32 API. The prototype implementation simulates a Python interface to
the inotify API in terms of ``ReadDirectoryChangesW``, allowing most of
the code to be shared across platforms.
The alternative of using `NTFS Change Journals`_ for Windows was
considered, but appears to be more complicated and does not provide any
additional functionality over the scanning approach described above.
The Change Journal mechanism is also only available for NTFS filesystems,
but FAT32 filesystems are still common in user installations of Windows.
.. _`NTFS Change Journals`: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363803%28VS.85%29.aspx
When we detect the creation of a new directory below the local Magic
Folder directory, we create it in the Tahoe-LAFS filesystem, and also
scan the new local directory for new files. This scan is necessary to