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Subject[RFC] FUSE: mnotify (was: [RFC] VFS: mnotify)
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Al Boldi wrote:
> Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> > Why on earth would you cripple the kernel defaults for ext3 (which is a
> > fine FS for boot/root filesystems), when the *fundamental* problem you
> > really want to solve lie much deeper in the implementation of the
> > filesystem? Noatime doesn't solve the problem, it just makes it "less
> > horrible".
>
> inotify could easily solve the atime problem, but it's got the drawback of
> forcing the user to register each and every file/dir of interest, which
> isn't really reasonable on TB-filesystems.
>
> It could be feasible to introduce mnotify, which would notify the user of
> meta changes, like atime, across the filesystem. Something like mnotify
> could also be helpful in CoW situations, provided it supported an in-sync
> interface.

Here is an idea: Could FUSE be used to produce mnotify behaviour?


Thanks!

--
Al

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