On Fri, Prakash Sangappa wrote: > Spencer Shepler wrote: > >>It appears that the distributed filesystem implementation should > >>provide necessary means > >>to collect such events. I think the responsibility falls squarely on the > >>distributed file system > >>implementation. I don't of if there are any distributed file system > >>implementation which can > >>do that. > >> > > > >Did my email about the upcoming NFSv4.1 directory delegation feature > >not make it to the alias? No, I checked, it is there. :-) > > > Sorry I missed that. > >NFSv4.1 has a notification mechanism and it has its own set of > >restrictions but NFSv4.1 will allow for a certain set of notifications > >to be sent to a client that requests them. > > > >You should also note that CIFS also has file notfication methods as well. > > > > > Great!. That will be certainly useful. Are these notification types > proposed for > NFSv4.1 similar to what CIFS provides?
I don't know and am not aware of a quick-guide for comparison . > > What are these notification types that the client can ask? For NFSv4.1 the client can ask for remove,add,rename actions within a directory and can also ask for notification of attribute changes for the directory object itself and the objects within the directory. Spencer _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
