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Boris Petrov commented on VFS-654:
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Thank you for the quick response. I spent a significant amount of time
researching this. [Samba 3 has support for notifications since version
3.0.25.|https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_3.0_Features_added/changed]. Of
course, local file systems have the *inotify* functionality (that's on Linux,
I'm pretty sure there is something on Windows). Maybe these are the only two
available.
Samba 3 support is along the way in [smbj|https://github.com/hierynomus/smbj]
and there is a [pull request|https://github.com/apache/commons-vfs/pull/26] for
VFS for that library (which I hope you'll merge soon). I guess they will add
notifications support once *smbj* has them and you expose some API in VFS.
As for other file systems - I really don't know. NFS seems to have such support
(at least I read that it can be used with *inotify* so there obviously is
something. NFS is supported by [this
library|https://github.com/danniss/common-vfs2-nfs]. WebDAV also seems to be
able to trigger some kind of notifications but I am not sure. I'll have to
research more. In any case - such an API by VFS is definitely a nice thing to
have and then it's up to the driver to implement it if possible.
> File system events API
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>
> Key: VFS-654
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-654
> Project: Commons VFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.2
> Reporter: Boris Petrov
> Priority: Major
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> Currently the DefaultFileMonitor walks the whole file system and notifies
> when something changes. For large file systems and (near) real-time
> requirements this is _extremely_ inefficient. Some file systems have an
> events API which could be exposed (like *inotify*). Has any work towards that
> ever been done?
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