Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Mount, FS, Block and Keyrings notifications

From: Amir Goldstein
Date: Wed May 29 2019 - 03:43:50 EST


On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 9:45 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I am interested to know how you envision filesystem notifications would
> > look with this interface.
>
> What sort of events are you thinking of by "filesystem notifications"? You
> mean things like file changes?

I mean all the events provided by
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/fanotify.7.html

Which was recently (v4.20) extended to support watching a super block
and more recently (v5.1) extended to support watching directory entry
modifications.

Thanks,
Amir.