Currently only local events can be waited on with the current notify kernel API since the requests to wait on these events is not passed to the filesystem. Especially for network and cluster filesystems it is important that they be told that applications want to be notified of these file or directory change events. A few years ago, discussions began on the changes needed to enable support for this. Would be timely to finish those discussions, as waiting on file and directory change events to network mounts is very common for other OS, and would be valuable for Linux to fix. -- Thanks, Steve
