Return-Path: Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:63436 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756136Ab1EBO3M convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 May 2011 10:29:12 -0400 Received: by ywj3 with SMTP id 3so1910039ywj.19 for ; Mon, 02 May 2011 07:29:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110502140750.GA10885@fieldses.org> References: <20110502140750.GA10885@fieldses.org> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 16:29:11 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How does NFS handle notify? From: Stef Bon To: "J. Bruce Fields" Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Ok, so as I understand NFS does not support it yet. I thought it does. Are you interested when I set up a project to work on the VFS to make it possible to make the mounted fs notified (by the VFS) that a notify watch is set (or removed)? I guess the developers of cifs are interested too, and me, as developer of a FUSE fs. Stef 2011/5/2 J. Bruce Fields : > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:33:32AM +0200, Stef Bon wrote: >> Mentioned there - and I agree - that when developing support for >> notify on mounted filesystems you need to have one base (in VFS), and >> a part which is handled by the (mounted) fs self. >> >> So here my question, how does NFS handle notify?? > > No.  It might be possible with new features in the 4.1 version of the > protocol (http://tools.ietf.org/html//rfc5661#section-10.9). > > --b. >