Directory Watchdog - Background file monitor service to initiate auto update library?

In case anyone else misunderstood i just want to make it clear that any event based solution will not work over network using smb, nfs or any kind of distributed file systems.

ventech Wrote:In case anyone else misunderstood i just want to make it clear that any event based solution will not work over network using smb, nfs or any kind of distributed file systems.

samba is ntfs over network essentially, it should work according to specs.

And any eventdriven solution will work if the protocol exposes it, for those protocols which doesn't a watchdog would obviously be a fallback. Which is also why we want to do a proper abstraction for it where the protocol implementation either implement the events or it fallbacks to watchdog

what protocol expose it?

ventech Wrote:what protocol expose it?

Any protocol which expose it will be instant and nice, local files and hopefully smb. Not sure about others, uPnP perhaps and maybe nfs? I am not sure as said. At any rate, those which does not support it would still have a nice shared fallback technique, which is exactly what is proposed here, but alot more future proof

well i cant seem to find anything about how to do this over smb...

btw. just noticed that jdk7 will implement a watch service which does exactly what you explained, fallbacks to polling: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalA...ase/nio/#6
Maybe you could take something from the api or code. If this isnt finished til the language refactor and java7 then at least an addon should be easy to produce

ventech Wrote:well i cant seem to find anything about how to do this over smb...

btw. just noticed that jdk7 will implement a watch service which does exactly what you explained, fallbacks to polling: http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalA...ase/nio/#6
Maybe you could take something from the api or code. If this isnt finished til the language refactor and java7 then at least an addon should be easy to produce

The code would most likely be in the vfs, i.e. each vfs addon needs to implement it. So for this to happen vfs needs to be redesigned. Something I have started with extremely rudimentary in my github

I have slow PC running XBMC and if i set library to update after start then i can't play movies without lags. If update is not running it is ok. So is there some way to make xbmc update library from fileserver (samba) on background using very low priority on cpu?