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Subject: Re: NFS on ZFS pure SSD pool
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2013, at 8:49, Rick Macklem wrote:
> I haven't touched a Mac in several years, but I think Finder probes at
> regular intervals to see if directories (oops, I meant folders;-) have
> changed. I think there is a way to increase the interval time between
> probes.
> 

I can't be 100% sure, but I think Finder does an initial scan sometime
after the OS install and after that it just watches filesystem changes
through the FSEvents API -- like inotify/dnotify on linux or what you
can sort of do with kqueue on FreeBSD.