Re: [PATCH 1/2] [RFC] vfs: 'stat light' fstatat flags

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On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 19:48 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> (Actually I'd like dnotify/inotify/fsnotify so I can omit the stat()
> round trip entirely please on each application cache
> revalidation... but only if "check for any file change events, answer
> = no events" is synchronous in the same way that AT_STRICT is...)

There is no protocol support for inotify or fsnotify.

The NFSv4.1 protocol does support a dnotify-ish callback, but that isn't
synchronous due to scalability concerns. It should be quite sufficient
for the likes of konqueror or nautilus, though...

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Trond Myklebust
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