On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 17:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Simply adding new content doesn't usually require an explicit rescan > > because the server is watching a given set of directories. Changing > the > > structure typically does mean a rescan because the set of > directories to > > be watched has changed. > > Yup. Adding content sometimes requires it as well. Some servers don't > do a good job of scanning. I agree they're supposed to watch, but > minidlnad won't unless you enable inotify and event then only on > filesystems that support inotify. I know of at least one FS that > doesn't. Not sure if NFS does. I don't recall having to enable inotify (i.e. I think it was the default), but I may be mistaken. Clearly if the underlying filesystem doesn't have inotify the server will have to do more work and the programmer may not have bothered. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
