linux/fs/nfsd
Robert Love 0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
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auth.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
export.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
lockd.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: reboot hash 2005-06-24 00:06:33 -07:00
nfs2acl.c [PATCH] NFSD: Add server support for NFSv3 ACLs. 2005-06-22 16:07:23 -04:00
nfs3acl.c [PATCH] NFSD: Add server support for NFSv3 ACLs. 2005-06-22 16:07:23 -04:00
nfs3proc.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
nfs3xdr.c [PATCH] NFSD: Add server support for NFSv3 ACLs. 2005-06-22 16:07:23 -04:00
nfs4acl.c [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: make needlessly global code static 2005-06-24 00:06:33 -07:00
nfs4callback.c [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: remove cb_parsed 2005-06-24 00:06:35 -07:00
nfs4idmap.c [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: make needlessly global code static 2005-06-24 00:06:33 -07:00
nfs4proc.c [PATCH] nfsd4: ERR_GRACE should bump seqid on open 2005-07-07 18:24:08 -07:00
nfs4recover.c [PATCH] nfsd4: prevent multiple unlinks of recovery directories 2005-07-07 18:24:08 -07:00
nfs4state.c [PATCH] nfsd4: check lock type against openmode. 2005-07-07 18:24:11 -07:00
nfs4xdr.c [PATCH] nfsd4: fix fh_expire_type 2005-07-07 18:24:11 -07:00
nfscache.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
nfsctl.c [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4 reboot dirname fix 2005-06-24 00:06:36 -07:00
nfsfh.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
nfsproc.c [PATCH] NFSD: Add NFS3ERR_NOTSUPP to the nfsd error mapping table 2005-06-22 16:07:21 -04:00
nfssvc.c [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: rename nfs4_state_init 2005-06-24 00:06:31 -07:00
nfsxdr.c [PATCH] NFSD: Add server support for NFSv3 ACLs. 2005-06-22 16:07:23 -04:00
stats.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
vfs.c [PATCH] inotify 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00