On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 01:00:49AM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 05:40:29PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2019/08/01 17:32, su-@tutamail.com wrote:
> > > hi guys,
> > >
> > > just wondering if mpd can be compiled with the auto-update enabled ? Currently after installing mpd binary I have to manually update my database when files are removed / added. Thxs for your time
> > >
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> > It's not a simple case of "enable flag and build it", this features uses
> > a Linux-specific interface (inotify) to monitor directories.
> >
> > It might be possible to convert to something using the BSD kqueue interface,
> > but this will use quite a lot of resources (a file descriptor for every
> > monitored file, not just directory), on even an average sized music
> > collection this is likely to run into kernel limits very easily ..
>
> We have a port of inotify.
> Maybe we could provide a FLAVOR?
> (I don't need it, just saying)
>
wouldn't it require a change for mpd in login.conf to increase the
openfiles limits anyway?
one could use mpc package to run `mpc update --wait` from crontab, on my
laptop it takes 290 ms to scan 6000 files.
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