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authorRobert Love <rml@novell.com>2005-07-12 17:06:03 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-07-12 20:38:38 -0700
commit0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443 (patch)
tree7db42d8a18d80eca538f5b7d25e0532b8fa38b85 /fs/nfsd
parentbd4c625c061c2a38568d0add3478f59172455159 (diff)
downloadlinux-0eeca28300df110bd6ed54b31193c83b87921443.tar.bz2
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfsd')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfsd/vfs.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 5e0bf3917607..4f2cd3d27566 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
#endif /* CONFIG_NFSD_V3 */
#include <linux/nfsd/nfsfh.h>
#include <linux/quotaops.h>
-#include <linux/dnotify.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
#include <linux/posix_acl.h>
#include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>
#ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ nfsd_vfs_read(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct file *file,
nfsdstats.io_read += err;
*count = err;
err = 0;
- dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, DN_ACCESS);
+ fsnotify_access(file->f_dentry);
} else
err = nfserrno(err);
out:
@@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct file *file,
set_fs(oldfs);
if (err >= 0) {
nfsdstats.io_write += cnt;
- dnotify_parent(file->f_dentry, DN_MODIFY);
+ fsnotify_modify(file->f_dentry);
}
/* clear setuid/setgid flag after write */