I have a recurring problem where TM cannot detect file changes.
This is because I work on a a remote filesystem (Centos), which is mounted via AFP. Its actually a VM running on ESXI Server on my LAN, although a Vagrant or VMWare setup is quite common now.
From what I understand, TM uses kqueue or BSD's FSEvents for file
notifications (I suspect kqueue?).
Its causing me a lot of problems as I switch git branch and TM doesn't always detect it, sometimes resulting in a file from another branch being saved over the top.
A bit of googling shows there is libkqueue, which tries to provide a kqueue interface on top of the underlying host OS, but its not clear to me whether this would be suitable for a remote fs, even if it was feasible to compile into TM.
Has anyone found a workaround to this please?
On 9 Sep 2014, at 1:45, Carpii UK wrote:
This is because I work on a a remote filesystem (Centos), which is mounted via AFP. Its actually a VM running on ESXI Server on my LAN, although a Vagrant or VMWare setup is quite common now.
The typical Vagrant setup will mount your Mac (project) folder in the virtual machine.
This means on the Mac it’s a 100% local file system with all the advantages that this brings, yet the files are still instantly accessible from the virtual machine.
[…] A bit of googling shows there is libkqueue, which tries to provide a kqueue interface on top of the underlying host OS, but its not clear to me whether this would be suitable for a remote fs
Either the remote machine will inform the client about file systme changes (mounting a Mac via AFP does support this) or alternatively the client will have to poll the remote server to test if there are changes (as would be required in your case). I would be surprised if libkqueue includes code to do regular polling.
Has anyone found a workaround to this please?
As indicated above, a workaround is to have the virtual machine mount a folder from your Mac.
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Allan Odgaard -
Carpii UK