Re: [fuse-devel] [PATCH v2 00/4] Enable fsnotify for fuse.

[Miklos S. <mi...@sz...>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Stef Bon <st...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is the second attempt to get these patches under attention.
>
> Introduction.
>
> fsnotify - the basic library where the existing fs change notify
> mechanism are build upon, like inotify, dnotify and fanotify on Linux
> - does only register local changes, not on the backend. When dealing
> with a backend shared with others (network filesystems) and fuse
> filesystems, fsnotify is not triggered by changes on the backend.

So you want to change that?

That means first you have to add the infrastructure to fsnotify, in an
fs-independent manner (no explicit checks for "fuse" type).

Also, I'd start with just adding the notifications and then if that
all works then start allow notifications to be masked by what
userspace is actually watching.

Thanks,
Miklos