Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:20:28 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: barbara <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it> Cc: gnome <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: How to exclude directories from gamin? Message-ID: <1239837628.11660.17.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <KI5UH0$78EEF289F58E8CA53B3DBE3931E541C4@libero.it>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:03 +0200, barbara wrote: > > Mike Harding wrote: > > > That page (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html) doesn't > > > tell how to exclude directories, only how to select polling or > > > notification. Grrr! > > > > The secret is to use polling on paths you don't want to lock. The > > problem with FreeBSD's kqueue system is that it requires the > > file/directory to be open in order to monitor it. If you disable kernel > > notification for certain paths, and opt for polling, then the files do > > not need to be opened, and thus they will not prevent umount from working. > > > > Joe > > > > > So the only "useful" method on FreeBSD should be poll, is it correct? > I mean, the one that should be used. No. Kernel notification is useful for static directories (e.g. your home directory). > > But this is what I've got from the gamin debug: > ... > Dumping mounted file systems > ufs filesystem mounted at /mnt/aux2 > ufs filesystem mounted at /mnt/aux1 > ... > Dumping file system properties > ... > fstype ufs monitor kernel poll timeout 0 > ... > > So it seems poll is used for /mnt/aux1 and /mnt/aux2 which are ufs fs. > Nevertheless I'm unable to umount them. Are you sure that it's gam_server that's keeping then in use? Joe > > > Regards > Barbara > > > -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAknma7oACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4fLJQCgq29CKjbqsGmcYVKDlB547DSF xUIAn2dhI+zjmF1j+u8QXx0npa5vbIXE =kXWc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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