[OmniOS-discuss] Plex on LX zone howto

[Brian Hechinger]

Ok, looks like it might be something with Plex itself. Chatting about it in #smartos on IRC we’ve discovered (and tested) that inotify works both from changes made inside the zone and external to the zone.

-brian

> On Apr 12, 2017, at 12:49, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 12, 2017, at 12:37 PM, Brian Hechinger <wonko at 4amlunch.net> wrote:
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>> Just FYI, I set Plex on a LX zone. I used CentOS 7 and just so you know, file change notification doesn’t appear to work so checking the box in Plex to re-scan on new files doesn’t function.
> 
> You may wish to see if bloody (soon to be r151022) may cure what ails you on this front.  Some bugfixes pulled-in from SmartOS during the r151021 bloody cycle that may be relevant:
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>    OS-5900 io_getevents doesn't block when it should
>    OS-5926 epoll mishandles excessive timeout negativity
>    OS-5845 lx aio performance improvements and move into kernel
>    OS-5981 move eventfd in-kernel
>    OS-5990 fix for OS-5987 causes worker thread to mishandle some signals
>    OS-5991 refactor aio to remove exitlwp brand hook
>    OS-5992 harden aio worker thread signal handling
>    OS-5261 lxbrand eventfd AIO overflow behavior is incorrect
>    OS-6016 lxbrand poll(2) wants implicit events
> 
> Can't guarantee it'll help, but it won't hurt.
> 
> FYI,
> Dan
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