How to exclude directories from gamin?

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 08:33 +0200, barbara wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 23:03 +0200, barbara wrote:
> > > > Mike Harding wrote:
> > > > > That page (http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html) doesn'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 kernel
> > > > 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 working.
> > > > 
> > > > 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 $?

See my email to Mike Harding for a possible fix.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
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