Re: [systemd-devel] Suggestion for a system fs change notify service.

2018-07-16 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 9:38 AM Stef Bon wrote: > Filsesystems like cifs and nfs are a problem. I think that they can > also contact the "systemd-fsnotify" daemon through a fd (like with > autofs) but I;ve not spent a lot of time to this issue. > SMB has change notifications – afaik the Linux cl

Re: [systemd-devel] Suggestion for a system fs change notify service.

2018-07-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mo, 16.07.18 08:36, Stef Bon (stef...@gmail.com) wrote: > My idea is that a low level systemd-fsnotify which offers a socket to > fuse filesystems to handle the setting of watches is the best > sollution. And of course the processing of events when something is > reported by the fuse fs: this c

[systemd-devel] Suggestion for a system fs change notify service.

2018-07-15 Thread Stef Bon
Hi, I've written a lot of fuse filesystems, and am interested in making fs change notify service. fschange notify (=fsnotify for Linux) does not work for fuse filesystems. The reason for that is that with fuse the backend/server is not informed a fsnotify watch is set on an inode. For local files