Hello:
Thanks for the work on the FS watcher - really appreciate this inclusion.
However, I’m having an issue with the watcher failing to start up on large folders.
I’m running this on a Synology NAS, and have consequently raised the inotify max_user_watches as recommended (it defaults to 8192). So far I have this raised to 2097152 (confirmed by running cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches ) - but I’m still running into failures on a couple of folders.
It does appear to be working on a folder with 25288 files, 646GB in size. It is not working on a folder of 131588 files, 238GB in size. Or one of 3908571 files, 21939GB in size.
Any ideas if this is to be expected for the quantity of files being watched, or if there are Bad Things to be expected for raising the limit even further? I tried to find out the limits of inotify elsewhere - but it doesn’t seem to be at all straightforward!
Many thanks,
Pants.