Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2014-09-22 at 17:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > Simply adding new content doesn't usually require an explicit rescan
> > because the server is watching a given set of directories. Changing
> the
> > structure typically does mean a rescan because the set of
> directories to
> > be watched has changed.
> 
> Yup. Adding content sometimes requires it as well. Some servers don't
> do a good job of scanning. I agree they're supposed to watch, but
> minidlnad won't unless you enable inotify and event then only on
> filesystems that support inotify. I know of at least one FS that
> doesn't. Not sure if NFS does.

I don't recall having to enable inotify (i.e. I think it was the
default), but I may be mistaken. Clearly if the underlying filesystem
doesn't have inotify the server will have to do more work and the
programmer may not have bothered.

poc