Return-Path: Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:37102 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753068Ab1EAJdd (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 05:33:33 -0400 Received: by iyb14 with SMTP id 14so4006732iyb.19 for ; Sun, 01 May 2011 02:33:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 11:33:32 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: How does NFS handle notify? From: Stef Bon To: 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 Hi, I'm working on a FUSE filesystem, which is part of a construction like GoboLinux. It offers the user, when her/his session begins an environment like: /Computer /Home /Internet Services /Mounts /Network /Shared /System The normal directories like /bin, /etc, /usr etcetera are present but hidden ( by the FUSE fs). See: http://linux.bononline.nl/wiki/index.php/Mount.md5key (especially the changes and the screenshots..) To make this environment more consistent and usefull, it has to support (i)notify. Earlier I've posted a message about that on the linux fsdevel mailist: http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=130052497829681&w=2 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?? I'm not that familiar with NFS, so maybe I'm asking something really stupid here... Thanks in advance, Stef