From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262433AbTKDRof (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:44:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262440AbTKDRof (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:44:35 -0500 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.130.16]:53212 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262433AbTKDRoc (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:44:32 -0500 From: Terje Malmedal To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: directory notification. MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:44:29 +0100 X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Modifications of existing files via NFS are not picked up by the directory notification system. kernel is 2.4.22, I'm testing with the example program from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/dnotify.txt I get notifications on the following: nfs-server# echo hello >> existing.file nfs-client# echo hello > new.file But not on this: nfs-client# echo hello >> existing.file I guess the problem of detecting changes done via NFS is similar to the problem of multiple hard-links to the same file, which is documented as not supported. Is this something that can be fixed, or is it going to be too difficult to go from NFS-handle and back to the directory it came from? -- - Terje malmedal@usit.uio.no