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Updating the FAQ section for supportability with NFS & FUSE filesystems.
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Pratik32 authored and nathany committed Oct 12, 2019
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Cross platform: Windows, Linux, BSD and macOS.

| Adapter | OS | Status |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Adapter | OS | Status |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| inotify | Linux 2.6.27 or later, Android\* | Supported [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/fsnotify/fsnotify.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/fsnotify/fsnotify) |
| kqueue | BSD, macOS, iOS\* | Supported [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/fsnotify/fsnotify.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/fsnotify/fsnotify) |
| ReadDirectoryChangesW | Windows | Supported [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/fsnotify/fsnotify.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/fsnotify/fsnotify) |
| FSEvents | macOS | [Planned](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/11) |
| FEN | Solaris 11 | [In Progress](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/12) |
| fanotify | Linux 2.6.37+ | [Planned](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/114) |
| USN Journals | Windows | [Maybe](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/53) |
| Polling | *All* | [Maybe](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/9) |
| FSEvents | macOS | [Planned](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/11) |
| FEN | Solaris 11 | [In Progress](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/12) |
| fanotify | Linux 2.6.37+ | [Planned](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/114) |
| USN Journals | Windows | [Maybe](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/53) |
| Polling | *All* | [Maybe](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/9) |

\* Android and iOS are untested.

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* Linux: /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches contains the limit, reaching this limit results in a "no space left on device" error.
* BSD / OSX: sysctl variables "kern.maxfiles" and "kern.maxfilesperproc", reaching these limits results in a "too many open files" error.

**Why don't notifications work with NFS filesystems or filesystem in userspace (FUSE)?**

fsnotify requires support from underlying OS to work. The current NFS protocol does not provide network level support for file notifications.

[#62]: https://github.com/howeyc/fsnotify/issues/62
[#18]: https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/18
[#11]: https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify/issues/11
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