Whit, thanks for your reply. Yes, I am looking for the support of the second case. Seems it's in the plan for 3.4 BRs, Kent -- Kent Liu kurlez at outlook.com ? 2012?9?10???????8:19?Whit Blauvelt ??? > Hi, > > I don't know about Gluster support, but I use inotify via incrontab to watch > mounted Gluster filesystems and it works well. Most of my use of it is just > triggering scripts when new files arrive. > > See: http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=doc&lang=en > > There are limitations. It has to have a line in the table for each > subdirectory watched - no recursion. And it only works if the file comes in > through the mounting system. So if system A has the Gluster share separately > mounted, and adds a file, incrontab on system A can see it, but incrontab on > system B won't be triggered. > > From a brief discussion with inotify's author, there's no likely way to ever > get the second to work. Was the Gluster project considering some sort of > signalling between clients to accomplish that? > > Whit > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:19:26PM +0800, Kent Liu wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > > > Is there any news on inotify support for GlusterFS? I see this in 3.4 list but > > I didn?t see any progress anywhere. > > > > > > http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Planning34/Inotify > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Kent > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gluster-users mailing list > > Gluster-users at gluster.org (mailto:Gluster-users at gluster.org) > > http://gluster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://gluster.org/pipermail/gluster-users/attachments/20120910/f1bc0984/attachment.htm>