Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:11:08AM CEST, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > > Apparently the Linux folks have this new fangled inotify thing > > that is also good at telling applications about changed files. > > It seems the hg folks are using it to speed up "hg status" by > > having a background daemon keep track of which files are dirty, > > and which aren't. > > How well does this play with NFS? I'm working at two places and at both > have my ~ on NFS and sometimes touch the working tree from various > machines. Would the inotify-based approach silently fail here? Or does > inotify just refuse to work on NFS? Quick google search suggests the > former, which is more than ok for informative purposes but big problem > if you actually _rely_ on the inotify to keep your index up-to-date. >From what I've read on it thus far (which isn't much) inotify doesn't work over NFS. I would *never* suggest relying on inotify for everything. But making it an option for folks who can use it may be nice. A lot of us do work on a local filesystem. Being able to get faster status output in those cases could be nice, especially on a big tree and slow VFS systems like Windows. -- Shawn. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
