From: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:01:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] fsmonitor: option to allow fsmonitor to run against network-mounted repos
Message-ID: <47e86c2f-ab13-e8e6-8f69-0a79c3f4c343@jeffhostetler.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.1317.v4.git.1660262231357.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>



On 8/11/22 7:57 PM, Eric DeCosta via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Eric DeCosta <edecosta@mathworks.com>
> 
> Though perhaps not common, there are uses cases where users have large,
> network-mounted repos. Having the ability to run fsmonitor against
> network paths would benefit those users.
> 
> Most modern Samba-based filers have the necessary support to enable
> fsmonitor on network-mounted repos. As a first step towards enabling
> fsmonitor to work against network-mounted repos, introduce a
> configuration option, 'fsmonitor.allowRemote'. Setting this option to
> true will override the default behavior (erroring-out) when a
> network-mounted repo is detected by fsmonitor.

V4 LGTM.  Thanks for your persistence and attention to detail here.

Jeff