On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:13:10PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Linus, what do you think about flat-out refusing to create the watches on > > filesystems that can't support them? > > Well, you seem to think that NFS and other network filesystems can't > support them. > > But they can. It's just that they'll only trigger on *local* changes, > not on remote changes. But if you're doing a file manager on a > workstation, triggering on local changes is generally exactly what you > want. ... except when that workstation has e.g. /var/spool/mail NFS-mounted, with MTA running on server. Or "wait until the job on server puts its results into this file". And yes, I've seen requests along those lines ;-/ Cluster filesystems have the same issue... -- 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
