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Date:      Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:59:27 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS on ZFS pure SSD pool
Message-ID:  <1377784767.31759.15575801.12666FDA@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <1079189088.15197172.1377784177805.JavaMail.root@uoguelph.ca>
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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.



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