[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] cifs: remove dnotify thread code

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:18:28 -0600
"Steve French" <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 21:32:09 -0600
> > "Steve French" <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch doesn't remove any capability of the current code. It just
> > gets rid of this kthread that doesn't do anything useful. There's
> > nothing stopping us from putting it back later once we have working dir
> > notification, but until then it's just doing unnecessary wakeups.
> Al's patch removes the ability for a network or cluster file system to
> handle directory change notification in the future ... (AFAIK KDE,
> GNOME still use this fcntl) so we won't be able to fix the fcntl to
> work where it matters most (network or cluster environments) in the
> future without reverting the patch.
> 

Right. By "this patch", I meant the one that I sent.

Al's concerns seem valid though. You may be able to convince him to
add back in a dir_notify type interface to the VFS later but I imagine
it will need some redesign to address the problems he noted.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>