linux-kernel - Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Enabling change notification for network and cluster fs

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Message-ID: <YitCPVmurnC5Re9D@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Mar 2022 07:36:13 -0500
From:   Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:     Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
Cc:     lsf-pc@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Enabling change notification for network and
 cluster fs

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 11:16:33PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> Currently only local events can be waited on with the current notify
> kernel API since the requests to wait on these events is not passed to
> the filesystem.   Especially for network and cluster filesystems it is
> important that they be told that applications want to be notified of
> these file or directory change events.
> 
> A few years ago, discussions began on the changes needed to enable
> support for this.   Would be timely to finish those discussions, as
> waiting on file and directory change events to network mounts is very
> common for other OS, and would be valuable for Linux to fix.

If this topic gets selected for discussion, I will be interested in
joining the conversation.

Vivek
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve
>