inotify with NFS

Question

I\'ve recently created a dropbox system using inotify, watching for files created in a particular directory. The directory I\'m watching is mounted from an NFS server, and i

Answer 1

To anyone who has come across this question in the search for an answer of why bind mounting on Docker will not detect file changes from host directory (for hot reloading of an app), it's because the propagation of file changes between host and container is not communicated to the container kernel.

Only changes from the container itself is communicated to the kernel. Solution for this is to have your live reload utility turn on "polling mode" instead of using fsnotify.