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Does inotify work with NFS?

April 26, 2017inotify NFS

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Does inotify work with NFS?

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Somewhat. Local changes done on your client computer will be noticed by inotify, because they are passing through the VFS layer in the Linux kernel. However, no remote changes will be seen, because Linux’s NFS implementation does not support any kind of change notification.