[Gluster-users] @devel - Why no inotify?

[lejeczek]

how about gluste's own client(s)?
You mount volume (locally to the server) via autofs/fstab 
and watch for inotify on that mountpoing(or path inside it).
That is something I expected was out-of-box.

On 03/05/18 17:44, Joe Julian wrote:
> There is the ability to notify the client already. If you 
> developed against libgfapi you could do it (I think).
>
> On May 3, 2018 9:28:43 AM PDT, lemonnierk at ulrar.net wrote:
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>     Hey,
>
>     I thought about it a while back, haven't actually done it but I assume
>     using inotify on the brick should work, at least in replica volumes
>     (disperse probably wouldn't, you wouldn't get all events or you'd need
>     to make sure your inotify runs on every brick). Then from there you
>     could notify your clients, not ideal, but that should work.
>
>     I agree that adding support for inotify directly into gluster would be
>     great, but I'm not sure gluster has any mechanics for notifying clients
>     of changes since most of the logic is in the client, as I understand it.
>
>     On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 04:33:30PM +0100, lejeczek wrote:
>
>         hi guys will we have gluster with inotify? some
>         point / never? thanks, L.
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