If possible, if you don't REALLY need to read the tags, then proc/notify is better. Reason: Drives don't have to spin up in order for you to read proc/notify.

Good point. I was going to originally read everything from the empeg_notify, but thought that people might want to put in other tags, not kept in there. For starters, I will probably just read from empeg_notify.

Thanks.
Me.