Re: Possible to make nfs aware of a inotify watch has been set.

[simo <idra@samba.org>]

On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 21:09 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 15:05 -0500, simo wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So why is it so difficult for anyone in this thread to name these killer
> applications that would benefit from NFS+CIFS support? I keep asking,
> and all I get is wishy-washy and hand-wavy answers.
> 
> Without use cases, there is nothing to discuss on the implementation
> front.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I wasn't talking about inotify *on
CIFS/NFS*, I do not care about that use case, I'll gladly let Stef pitch
it for himself :)

Simo.

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Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo@redhat.com>