inotify on Samba4 and clustering
Abhijith Das
adas at redhat.com
Tue May 30 21:38:56 GMT 2006
Hi list,
I was looking at the latest Samba4 code and found some use of the
inotify interface. I was told before that dnotify was being replaced by
inotify, so this is not a surprise.
However, when I think of a clusterized implementation of inotify for
GFS, I see complications.
- An event-watch on one cluster node should be propagated to all nodes.
- When an event occurs on a different node, we need to somehow write to
the event-queue of the first node. This could mean some serious hacking.
- There are way too many events to use a distributed-lock-manager's
locking for internode communication. A separate userland event/messaging
framework would have to deal with these event notifications and pass
them around as necessary.
Is the effort worth the reward? In what situations does samba use
inotify and what could be the performance impact without inotify support?
An alternate solution could be a local-inotify implementation. We could
add support in clustered-samba to pass these inotify messages to various
cluster nodes as appropriate?
Many thanks,
--Abhi
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