Re: which ioctls matter across filesystems

Steve French
2005-04-29T21:00:01Z

Trond Myklebust wrote:

>I'm therefore asking whether or not there is a killer-app out there that
>we need to support and that does want to track changes made by other
>clients. File browsers are more or less the only thing that come to
>mind.
>
>Cheers,
> Trond
>
>
I believe that the spotlight facility of MacOS, and the somewhat similar
Longhorn feature (think Google desktop search/indexing on steroids)
qualify as killer-apps. I am concerned about how to do better with our
implementations across a distributed (NFS, CIFS etc.) network. And of
course coalescing async notifications most efficiently is a fascinating
and difficult area to do right - for servers at least.