On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:18:28 -0600 "Steve French" <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:32:09 -0600 > > "Steve French" <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This patch doesn't remove any capability of the current code. It just > > gets rid of this kthread that doesn't do anything useful. There's > > nothing stopping us from putting it back later once we have working dir > > notification, but until then it's just doing unnecessary wakeups. > Al's patch removes the ability for a network or cluster file system to > handle directory change notification in the future ... (AFAIK KDE, > GNOME still use this fcntl) so we won't be able to fix the fcntl to > work where it matters most (network or cluster environments) in the > future without reverting the patch. > Right. By "this patch", I meant the one that I sent. Al's concerns seem valid though. You may be able to convince him to add back in a dir_notify type interface to the VFS later but I imagine it will need some redesign to address the problems he noted. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
