Re: VFS event hooks
Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
26 Jun 1999 18:43:03 -0400
>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:
> One argument I have heard and partially buy into is that this doesn't work
> over networked files, but it actually _does_ work fairly well: the kernel
> has to have the logic to check up-to-datedness anyway, so that could be
> extended fairly easily (but yes, networked filesystems would probably have
> a minute or two before they noticed remote updates).
NFS would probably have suboptimal behavior (although directory updates
should propagate rather quickly: much less than a minute), but any
network-file-system providing a real consistency guarantee like AFS, Coda
and friends should behave just perfectly fine.
Stefan
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