Support for inotify in mounted directories

Signed-off-by: Balaji Vijayakumar <[email protected]>
lima-vm · Mar 1, 2024 · 8dbaf39 · 8dbaf39
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diff --git a/cmd/limactl/editflags/editflags.go b/cmd/limactl/editflags/editflags.go
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ func registerEdit(cmd *cobra.Command, commentPrefix string) {
 	})
 
 	flags.Bool("mount-writable", false, commentPrefix+"make all mounts writable")
+	flags.Bool("mount-inotify", false, commentPrefix+"enable inotify for mounts")
 
 	flags.StringSlice("network", nil, commentPrefix+"additional networks, e.g., \"vzNAT\" or \"lima:shared\" to assign vmnet IP")
 	_ = cmd.RegisterFlagCompletionFunc("network", func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string, toComplete string) ([]string, cobra.ShellCompDirective) {
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ func YQExpressions(flags *flag.FlagSet, newInstance bool) ([]string, error) {
 			false,
 		},
 		{"mount-type", d(".mountType = %q"), false, false},
+		{"mount-inotify", d(".mountInotify = %s"), false, true},
 		{"mount-writable", d(".mounts[].writable = %s"), false, false},
 		{
 			"network",

diff --git a/examples/default.yaml b/examples/default.yaml
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ mounts:
 # 🟢 Builtin default: "reverse-sshfs" (for QEMU), "virtiofs" (for vz)
 mountType: null
 
+# Enable inotify support for mounted directories (EXPERIMENTAL)
+# 🟢 Builtin default: Disabled by default
+mountInotify: null
+
 # Lima disks to attach to the instance. The disks will be accessible from inside the
 # instance, labeled by name. (e.g. if the disk is named "data", it will be labeled
 # "lima-data" inside the instance). The disk will be mounted inside the instance at

diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/nxadm/tail v1.4.11
 	github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0
 	github.com/pbnjay/memory v0.0.0-20210728143218-7b4eea64cf58
+	github.com/rjeczalik/notify v0.9.3
 	github.com/sethvargo/go-password v0.2.0
 	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.3
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.8.0

diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZb
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
 github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0 h1:S1pD9weZBuJdFmowNwbpi7BJ8TNftyUImj/0WQi72jY=
 github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0/go.mod h1:J6wj4VEh+S6ZtnVlnTBMWIodfgj8LQOQFoIToxlJtxc=
+github.com/rjeczalik/notify v0.9.3 h1:6rJAzHTGKXGj76sbRgDiDcYj/HniypXmSJo1SWakZeY=
+github.com/rjeczalik/notify v0.9.3/go.mod h1:gF3zSOrafR9DQEWSE8TjfI9NkooDxbyT4UgRGKZA0lc=
 github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.10.0 h1:TMyTOH3F/DB16zRVcYyreMH6GnZZrwQVAoYjRBZyWFQ=
 github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.10.0/go.mod h1:UQnix2H7Ngw/k4C5ijL5+65zddjncjaFoBhdsK/akog=
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0 h1:JIOH55/0cWyOuilr9/qlrm0BSXldqnqwMsf35Ld67mk=
@@ -335,6 +337,7 @@ golang.org/x/sync v0.4.0/go.mod h1:FU7BRWz2tNW+3quACPkgCx/L+uEAv1htQ0V83Z9Rj+Y=
 golang.org/x/sync v0.5.0/go.mod h1:Czt+wKu1gCyEFDUtn0jG5QVvpJ6rzVqr5aXyt9drQfk=
 golang.org/x/sync v0.6.0 h1:5BMeUDZ7vkXGfEr1x9B4bRcTH4lpkTkpdh0T/J+qjbQ=
 golang.org/x/sync v0.6.0/go.mod h1:Czt+wKu1gCyEFDUtn0jG5QVvpJ6rzVqr5aXyt9drQfk=
+golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20180926160741-c2ed4eda69e7/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190215142949-d0b11bdaac8a/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190222072716-a9d3bda3a223/go.mod h1:STP8DvDyc/dI5b8T5hshtkjS+E42TnysNCUPdjciGhY=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20190312061237-fead79001313/go.mod h1:h1NjWce9XRLGQEsW7wpKNCjG9DtNlClVuFLEZdDNbEs=

diff --git a/pkg/guestagent/api/client/client.go b/pkg/guestagent/api/client/client.go
@@ -49,3 +49,11 @@ func (c *GuestAgentClient) Events(ctx context.Context, eventCb func(response *ap
 		eventCb(recv)
 	}
 }
+
+func (c *GuestAgentClient) Inotify(ctx context.Context) (api.GuestService_PostInotifyClient, error) {
+	inotify, err := c.cli.PostInotify(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return inotify, nil
+}
diff --git a/pkg/guestagent/api/guestservice.pb.desc b/pkg/guestagent/api/guestservice.pb.desc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-�
+�
 guestservice.protogoogle/protobuf/empty.protogoogle/protobuf/timestamp.proto"0
 Info(
 local_ports (2.IPPortR
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ localPorts"
 errors (	Rerrors",
 IPPort
 ip (	Rip
-port (Rport2g
+port (Rport"X
+Inotify
+
+mount_path (	R	mountPath.
+time (2.google.protobuf.TimestampRtime2�
 GuestService(
 GetInfo.google.protobuf.Empty.Info-
-	GetEvents.google.protobuf.Empty.Event0B!Zgithub.com/lima-vm/lima/pkg/apibproto3
+	GetEvents.google.protobuf.Empty.Event01
+PostInotify.Inotify.google.protobuf.Empty(B!Zgithub.com/lima-vm/lima/pkg/apibproto3
diff --git a/pkg/guestagent/api/guestservice.pb.go b/pkg/guestagent/api/guestservice.pb.go
diff --git a/pkg/guestagent/api/guestservice.proto b/pkg/guestagent/api/guestservice.proto
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import "google/protobuf/timestamp.proto";
 service GuestService {
   rpc GetInfo(google.protobuf.Empty) returns (Info);
   rpc GetEvents(google.protobuf.Empty) returns (stream Event);
+  rpc PostInotify(stream Inotify) returns (google.protobuf.Empty);
 }
 
 message Info {
@@ -24,3 +25,8 @@ message IPPort {
   string ip = 1;
   int32 port = 2;
 }
+
+message Inotify {
+  string mount_path = 1;
+  google.protobuf.Timestamp time = 2;
+}
diff --git a/pkg/guestagent/api/guestservice_grpc.pb.go b/pkg/guestagent/api/guestservice_grpc.pb.go