On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 01:00:49AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 05:40:29PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2019/08/01 17:32, [email protected] wrote: > > > hi guys, > > > > > > just wondering if mpd can be compiled with the auto-update enabled ? > > > Currently after installing mpd binary I have to manually update my > > > database when files are removed / added. Thxs for your time > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: > > > https://tutanota.com > > > > It's not a simple case of "enable flag and build it", this features uses > > a Linux-specific interface (inotify) to monitor directories. > > > > It might be possible to convert to something using the BSD kqueue interface, > > but this will use quite a lot of resources (a file descriptor for every > > monitored file, not just directory), on even an average sized music > > collection this is likely to run into kernel limits very easily .. > > We have a port of inotify. > Maybe we could provide a FLAVOR? > (I don't need it, just saying) > wouldn't it require a change for mpd in login.conf to increase the openfiles limits anyway?
one could use mpc package to run `mpc update --wait` from crontab, on my laptop it takes 290 ms to scan 6000 files.
