Re: Cephfs + inotify

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I've used inotify against a kernel mount a few months back. Worked fine for
me if I recall correctly.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, 08:20 Sean <sean@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  I don’t think this is possible, since CephFS is a network mounted
> filesystem. The inotify feature requires the kernel to be aware of file
> system changes. If the kernel is unaware of changes in a tracked directory,
> which is the case for all network mounted filesystems, then it can’t inform
> any watching process.
>
> If you use an RBD image, that should work, however. In that case the kernel
> sees the RDB image as a raw block device, and is in full control of the
> mounted filesystem.
>
> ~ Sean
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2021 at 11:55:25 AM, nORKy <joff.au@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > intotify does not work with cephfs. How can I  make inotify work or build
> > an alternative on my C program ?
> >
> > Thanks you
> >
> > 'Joffrey
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