IIRC, there is at least some of the necessary code for file change notification present in order to support NFSv4 delegations on the server side. Last time I looked it wasn't exposed to userspace.
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On the file event monitor portion of the OP, has Solaris added dnotify, inotify or FAM support to the kernel or is the goal still to extend the ports/poll framework junk with a "file events notification facility"? As far as I know the file attributes do not handle file change monitoring. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/perf-discuss/2006-May/000540.html Wade Stuart Fallon Worldwide P: 612.758.2660 C: 612.877.0385 Conjeturo que no soy buen cocinero. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/20/2007 11:40:15 AM: > Erast Benson wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:29 -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > >> On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 16:22 +0000, Darren J Moffat wrote: > >>> Robert Milkowski wrote: > >>>> Hello devid, > >>>> > >>>> Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 3:58:27 PM, you wrote: > >>>> > >>>> d> Does ZFS have a Data Management API to monitor events on files and > >>>> d> to store arbitrary attribute information with a file? Any answer on > >>>> d> this would be really appreciated. > >>>> > >>>> IIRC correctly there's being developed file event mechanism - more > >>>> general which should work with other file systems too. I have no idea > >>>> of its status or if someone even started coding it. > >>>> > >>>> Your second question - no, you can't. > >>> Yes you can and it has been there even before ZFS existed see fsattr(5) > >>> it isn't ZFS specific but a generic attribute extension to the > >>> filesystems, currently supported by ufs, nfs, zfs, tmpfs. > >> apparently fsattr is not part of OpenSolaris or at least I can't find > >> it.. > > > > oh, this is API... > > the (5) is a section 5 man page, which is the misc dumping ground for > man pages. > > If you want a CLI interface to this see runat(1), for example to create > an attribute called mime-type with the content 'text/plain' on file foo > you could do this: > > $ runat foo 'echo text/plain > mime-type' > > To see the value of mime-type for file foo do this: > > $ runat foo cat mime-type > text/plain > > > > -- > Darren J Moffat > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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