kernel_optimize_test/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
export.c
lockd.c
Makefile
nfs2acl.c
nfs3acl.c
nfs3proc.c
nfs3xdr.c
nfs4acl.c
nfs4callback.c
nfs4idmap.c
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
nfsctl.c
nfsfh.c
nfsproc.c
nfssvc.c
nfsxdr.c
stats.c
vfs.c [PATCH] inotify 2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00