On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 17:11 +0000, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > The idea that "if we build a bridge, they will come to us" is what > gave > rise to dnotify, then inotify (nobody came, so let's build a bigger > bridge) and fsnotify (make it a toll bridge). Nobody is using those > interfaces much on local filesystems, so why is adding it to NFS and > CIFS going to be such a game changer? Sorry Trond, but this is simply not true. inotify is a key feature at least in some packages I know, and makes some things *a lot* easier. Of course this are less visible features, that are easy to overlook, but they are not unused for sure. (dnotify on the other hand was underused because it was almost useless) Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer <simo@xxxxxxxxx> Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc. <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
