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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees


From: Andrew Suffield
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [PATCH] arch speedups on big trees
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:35:44 +0000
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:19:41PM +0000, Robin Green wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:20:34AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:09:28PM -0800, Tom Lord wrote:
> > > That possibility -- the "smart file system" -- sure sounds exotic and
> > > unlikely but I _can_ see it being worthwhile.   If you wanted to make
> > > a distro that was _really_ _really_ tuned for developers .....
> 
> Exotic and unlikely?
> 
> Well, actually, the Linux and Irix kernels, for example, both support
> userland notification of inode modification events.
> 
> Of course, that's unlikely to work properly with remote NFS shares,
> I would imagine - unless NFS _also_ has such a feature.

It's called "fam" :P

You run fam on the server (where it must have a local notification
system), and it provides the service to nfs clients which also run
fam.

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