Ocfs2 users - Jun 2011 - inotify

Hi,

I'm running a 2 node OCFS2 + DRBD cluster to host maildirs. The IMAP server
(Dovecot) uses inotify to track changes to the maildir, and informs the client
when changes occur.

In the following scenario the client is informed immediately:
The client is connected to host A and a message is delivered on host A.

In the following scenario the client is not informed immediately: 
The client is connected to host A and a message is delivered on host B.

It looks like the inotify updates are more or less batched and transmitted to
the other host every n seconds.

My question:
Is there a way for me to speed up the process of sending inotify updates?

Best regards,
Jeroen Koekkoek

This is because we have not hooked up inotify to the cluster stack.

On 06/30/2011 07:26 AM, Jeroen Koekkoek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a 2 node OCFS2 + DRBD cluster to host maildirs. The IMAP
server (Dovecot) uses inotify to track changes to the maildir, and informs the
client when changes occur.
>
> In the following scenario the client is informed immediately:
> The client is connected to host A and a message is delivered on host A.
>
> In the following scenario the client is not informed immediately:
> The client is connected to host A and a message is delivered on host B.
>
> It looks like the inotify updates are more or less batched and transmitted
to the other host every n seconds.
>
> My question:
> Is there a way for me to speed up the process of sending inotify updates?
>
> Best regards,
> Jeroen Koekkoek