On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Stef Bon <stefbon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > some of you may already know I'm busy with this, I've posted here > before and at other places about this topic. > > see: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=130052497829681&w=2 > > > In short, I want to make fs's like my FUSE fs and cifs handle inotify > request, done on userspace. Interesting. I think notify support is particularly important for network file systems (to enable user space file managers to see when files are added/deleted - without having to poll). Windows desktop (and even years ago OS/2) have used SMB/CIFS notifications to refresh open directory listings automatically. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html