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To: Stef Bon <stefbon@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: How does NFS handle notify?
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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.