From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: simo Subject: Re: Possible to make nfs aware of a inotify watch has been set. Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:05:57 -0500 Message-ID: <1354219557.4064.7.camel@pico.ipa.ssimo.org> References: <4FA345DA4F4AE44899BD2B03EEEC2FA90B329CFD@SACEXCMBX04-PRD.hq.netapp.com> <1354202525.4064.1.camel@pico.ipa.ssimo.org> <4FA345DA4F4AE44899BD2B03EEEC2FA90B32AEB7@SACEXCMBX04-PRD.hq.netapp.com> <4FA345DA4F4AE44899BD2B03EEEC2FA90B32B2A0@SACEXCMBX04-PRD.hq.netapp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stef Bon , "linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , linux-cifs To: "Myklebust, Trond" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4FA345DA4F4AE44899BD2B03EEEC2FA90B32B2A0-VGJ86jkg8PeBTCzCEi1xmXOR4cbS7gtM96Bgd4bDwmQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:11 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > The idea that "if we build a bridge, they will come to us" is what > gave > rise to dnotify, then inotify (nobody came, so let's build a bigger > bridge) and fsnotify (make it a toll bridge). Nobody is using those > interfaces much on local filesystems, so why is adding it to NFS and > CIFS going to be such a game changer? Sorry Trond, but this is simply not true. inotify is a key feature at least in some packages I know, and makes some things *a lot* easier. Of course this are less visible features, that are easy to overlook, but they are not unused for sure. (dnotify on the other hand was underused because it was almost useless) Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc.