I recently reconfigured the filesystem on my laptop so I can share my data with a second Linux. The Linux used in this matter is Fedora 28, 64-bit.
My disks are now laid out like so:
/dev/sda:
/dev/sda1- efi partition/dev/sda2- swap/dev/sda3- data partition mounted via/etc/fstabat/media/data_partition
/dev/sdb:
/dev/sdb1- root partition mounted at //dev/sdb2- var partition mounted at /var/dev/sdb3- home partition mounted at /home
The data partition now contains the contents of /opt, everything under $HOME/Documents and some miscellaneous stuff. They are on the partition with the some directory names (i.e. opt/, Documents/)
At boot, after the partition is mounted, I have a bindfs mount that mounts /media/data_partition/opt to /opt, and on login in my $HOME/.bash_profile, I bindfs mount /media/data_partition/Documents to $HOME/Documents.
When I boot up IntelliJ IDEA, it shows the following:
Currently I have open a project "located" at $HOME/Documents/University/Class/project_repo3. $HOME/Documents is the destination for a bind mount from /media/data_partition/Documents.
Also, IntelliJ IDEA's installation is located in /media/data_partition/opt. This location is the source for a bind mount to /opt
The mount seems to be IntelliJ's problem, but I have no idea what the actual issue is, nor which bind mount is the problem. I found these links:
- https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000013130-External-file-changes-sync-may-be-slow
- https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-192665
- https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2010/04/native-file-system-watcher-for-linux/
The last link explains their new usage of inotify and would seem to explain the problem and the solution, but I'm not 100%. I don't wanna change anything, and regret it later.
The questions:
- Is the solution proposed in the last link safe and correct?
- What is inotify (I read part of the manpage, but would appreciate additional explanation)?
- What are inotify watchers, and inotify instances?
