2011/5/3 Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>: > You've proposed a 'solution', but I'm still not seeing what the problem > is. > > Â Â 1. Why do we need to develop kernel support for dnotify+inotify+... > Â Â Â Âin every networked filesystem + fuse? Well yes that's a problem indeed. I see also there are more different types, which do not make life easier. > Â Â 2. What are the killer app use cases that we need to support and > Â Â Â Âthat cannot be supported with existing methods? > I do not have one, only the idea that Linux in general will benefit, when notify is supported for users using cifs, nfs and fuse fs's like mine. > Notifications on large distributed filesystems are a scalability > nightmare (particularly so for inotify), so they need careful > justification and need to be limited in scope. Just pulling out a > solution from your magic hat isn't sufficient. I do not have much experience with large distributed filesystems (can you name an example?) but isn't it possible to just turn notify off for such systems? Stef -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
