Re: [Tracker] the story on NFS

[Calvin Walton <calvin walton kepstin ca>]

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 15:53 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 14:25 -0500, Calvin Walton wrote:

> > For the simple case of a user having an NFS home directory mounted on
> > only one computer at a time, inotify actually works quite well. But as
> > soon as you add any concurrent/remote file modification in, it falls
> > apart pretty badly.
>
> So this is where fam is supposed to step in, right?  In particular
> tracker should connect to a famd on a server that it is being asked to
> index an NFS mount of?
>
> If so, then that doesn't seem to be working here since I added an NFS
> share and then checked the famd on the server the NFS share comes from
> and it has no connections from my tracker machine:

The first thing to check is that your client machine actually has the
"real" fam installed. Most linux desktops will have gamin installed
instead, which provides an ABI-compatible library, but does not support
the remote access protocol that fam uses.

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Calvin Walton <calvin walton kepstin ca>