From 5f32c07d0af436993bfc5577af8946ea2cead0dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Louwrentius Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:38:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited wiki page Manual3 through web user interface. --- wiki/Manual3.wiki | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/wiki/Manual3.wiki b/wiki/Manual3.wiki index 569ecab..fde1413 100644 --- a/wiki/Manual3.wiki +++ b/wiki/Manual3.wiki @@ -61,7 +61,12 @@ rm -rf /some/directory/INPUT_LOCK }}} - == Using a file as input == -When using the -f option in DAEMON mode, you also need to specify a -d option, to specify a directory. This directory is used for the lock file, as described above, if locking is used. \ No newline at end of file +When using the -f option in DAEMON mode, you also need to specify a -d option, to specify a directory. This directory is used for the lock file, as described above, if locking is used. + +== NFS and inotify == + +NFS does not work well with inotify. If a directory is exported through NFS and an NFS client writes to this directory through NFS, this creates thousands of CLOSE events instead of a single event. + +Therefore inotify cannot be used on a directory exported through NFS. PPSS tries to detect this by reading /etc/exports. If the source directory resides in a directory as found in /etc/exports, inotify is disabled. \ No newline at end of file