Re: [PATCH v4] fsmonitor: option to allow fsmonitor to run against network-mounted repos

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Aug 15, 2022, 17:33 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7d392yzh.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <47e86c2f-ab13-e8e6-8f69-0a79c3f4c343@jeffhostetler.com>

Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com> writes:

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> 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.

Thanks, both.  Queued.