On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 14:34 +0300, Martin Pärtel wrote: > So when gamin uses inotify exclusively there should be no problems with > umounting as long as no other process is using the mountpoint? > If so then it seems I wrongly assumed that the version in Ubuntu 5.06 > (0.0.26) > uses inotify. >
Hoary disables inotify by default. Breezy will have it enabled by default. > > Also, new versions of gamin do their best to avoid this problem by not using > > dnotify on any path that looks like a removable device. > If inotify is available then why is dnotify needed? Or did you mean it does > this when inotify is unavailable? > dnotify is going to be around for a while. But hopefully starting with 2.6.13, inotify will be included in the standard kernel. > > Thanks for answering my stupid questions :) > Perhaps an FAQ item on inotify, dnotify and polling mode would be in order? Probably not a bad idea. -- John McCutchan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Gamin-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gamin-list
