From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Subject: Re: inotify and nfsd exported filesystem
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:40:05 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:36:57PM +0100, devzero-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org wrote:
> i was only testing for IN_OPEN and IN_CLOSE_NOWRITE  ( http://inotify=
-tools.sourceforge.net/api/inotifytools_8h.html )

Something like CLOSE_NOWRITE is not in general going to be reliable,
because, for obvious performance reasons, the client doesn't necessaril=
y
always tell the server every time an application opens or closes a file=
=2E

> can do more in depth test tomorrow.

Thanks.

--b.

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> > Von: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
> > Gesendet: 22.01.08 21:29:42
> > An: devzero-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org
> > CC: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
> > Betreff: Re: inotify and nfsd exported filesystem
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> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 09:26:24PM +0100, devzero-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org wrote:
> > > hello !
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> > > it seems that accessing a file via knfsd exported filesystem does=
n`t
> > > create an appropriate event with inotify-tools, i.e. i cannot "se=
e"
> > > that this file has been accessed.
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> > What do you mean by "accessing"--is it just reads that are missed?
> > Writes as well?  Other kinds of modications of the filesystem?
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> > --b.
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> > > no problems if acess that file on the same machine via userspace =
- but
> > > accessing from a remote box via nfs just fails.
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> > > can somebody confirm this issue?
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> > > is this by design or is this a bug?
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