Written by Ashwin Raghav ashwinraghav@gmail.com.

The Posix standard for file system notifications- inotify, just won't do when you need to monitor file mutations in Distributed/Remote File Systems (RFS) like Gluster for two reasons - 1) It wont scale 2) It wont work. RNotify is a scalable solution with a clear separation of concerns that will help application developers and infrastructure engineers build subscription tools to remote files that are globally namespaced by the RFS. Here is what is in development.