Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:33:47 +0200 From: "barbara" <barbara.xxx1975@libero.it> To: "marcus" <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: How to exclude directories from gamin? Message-ID: <KI6KWB$70810019C68BE8849C0530FEB9ADC231@libero.it>
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> On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:03 +0200, barbara wrote: > > > Mike Harding wrote: > > > > That page (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html) does= n'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 k= ernel > > > 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 w= orking. > > > > > > 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 $ sudo mount /dev/ad10s1d /mnt/aux1 $ fstat | grep aux1 bar gam_server 1152 5265 /mnt/aux1 2 drwxr-xr-x 512 r bar gam_server 1152 5267 /mnt/aux1 3 drwxrwxr-x 512 r bar gam_server 1152 5268 /mnt/aux1 17546240 drwxr-xr-x 512 r bar gam_server 1152 5269 /mnt/aux1 15191040 drwxr-xr-x 512 r $ sudo umount /mnt/aux1 umount: unmount of /mnt/aux1 failed: Device busy $ pkill -9 gam_server && sudo umount /mnt/aux1 && echo $? 0
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