Re: which ioctls matter across filesystems

[Steve French]

Trond Myklebust wrote:

> I'm therefore asking whether or not there is a killer-app out there that
> we need to support and that does want to track changes made by other
> clients. File browsers are more or less the only thing that come to
> mind.
>
> Cheers,
>  Trond
>  
I believe that the spotlight facility of MacOS, and the somewhat similar 
Longhorn feature (think Google desktop search/indexing on steroids) 
qualify as killer-apps.   I am concerned about how to do better with our 
implementations across a distributed (NFS, CIFS etc.) network.   And of 
course coalescing async notifications most efficiently is a fascinating 
and difficult area to do right - for servers at least.
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