On Friday 04 December 2009 16:39:25 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > What's the rationale for adding them? The idea is to provide a mechanism to watch for "all events", but in a namespace aware way: for that, a process registers interest in all mount points it can reach. With the previous hack, a global "I want it all" flag, per-namespace listeners were not possible. Root can use bind mounts onto themselves (e.g., mount --bind /foo/bar /foo/bar) to watch arbitrary directories with the per-mount-point mechanism. Mount as user will open up additional use cases. It would be nice to be able to register interest in all events below a directory which is not a mount point, too. The problem with that is that the number of cached inodes below a given directory could be huge -- and we would have to visit them all atomically in order to "mark" them, which is not feasible. The per-mount-point mechanism will eventually give us *almost* the same, and so I believe it's good enough. Thanks, Andreas -- 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
