[arch-general] famd problems

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 11:14:15 EST 2008


2007/12/28, _saiko <saiko at harrr.net>:
> Jan de Groot wrote:
> > New applications can use inotify too and don't need fam at all for
> > filesystem monitoring. I do have fam installed as a dependency for
> > gnome-vfs on my system, but I don't have the daemon running. As long as
> > you don't run the daemon, there's nothing wrong with fam.
> > The only reason to use fam nowadays is when you have an NFS mounted
> > homedir that can't do inotify.
> >
> thanks!
> That's the answer i needed
> Since.. i can't remove fam because its libs are needed for some apps i
> use regularly
> inotify is included in the arch kernel right?

Sure, it's a standard kernel interface.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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