Howdy, I have a question for the NFS gurus on the list. We have a number of Solaris and Linux NFS clients that need to know when a file on a server changes. Currently they are issuing stat() calls to determine this, which means we are issuing thousands of NFS operations to determine if a given file has changed. Is anyone aware of a method that would allow the server to notify the client when a file changes (i.e., is there a file events notification facility for NFS)? I perused the NFSv4 RFC to see if a file event notification facility existed, but I didn't see anything that would do what I wanted (If I missed it, please let me know. I will wander off to read).
Thanks for any insight, - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net
