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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:04:36 +0200
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS on ZFS pure SSD pool
Message-ID:  <op.w2kz1yu78527sy@212-182-167-131.ip.telfort.nl>
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On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:59:27 +0200, Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.

AFAIK these FSEvents or inotify/dnotify or kqueue do not work on NFS. (But  
maybe the world has changed in the meantime.)

Ronald.



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