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

[Vivek Goyal]

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
>